Structurable algebras of skew-rank 1 over the affine plane (Q418440)

Over a field, every Albert algebra arises from the first or second Tits construction and its associated \(F_4\) bundle admits reduction of the structure group to \(\mathrm{SL}_1(B)\) for a central simple algebra \(B\) either over \(k\) or to \(\mathrm{SU}(B,\sigma)\) for a central simple algebra \(B\) over a quadratic field extension of \(k\), being \(\sigma\) an involution of the second type. In 1999 Parimala et al. constructed nontrivial Albert algebra bundles over the affine plane whose associated principal \(F_4\) bundle admits no reduction of the structure group to any proper connected reductive subgroup (also Parimala et al. gave a similar result with the associated principal \(G\) bundle being of type \(G_2\)). Hence the patched Albert algebras over the affine plane arise neither from a first nor a second Tits construction and there are patched octonion algebras over the affine plane which do not arise from a Cayley-Dickson process or are constructed involving a ternary Hermitian form and a two-dimensional subalgebra. In the paper under review the author uses the patching arguments of Parimala et al. to obtain infinitely many structurable algebras \(M_i\) of rank \(20\) over the affine plane \(\mathbb A_k^2\) which are not extended from \(k\), mutually nonisomorphic and whose fiber is a given matrix algebra over \(k\).