The cayley-dickson doubling process revisited (Q4369999)

The author introduces the notion of composition triples over rings and over locally ringed spaces. Composition triples occur as coordinates via Peirce decomposition of reduced Jordan algebras of a certain type over rings and locally ringed spaces. Vice versa, composition triples give rise to reduced Jordan algebras. Moreover, the category of composition algebras over locally ringed spaces turns out to be a subcategory of composition triples over locally ringed spaces. Thus it is natural to ask whether the Cayley-Dickson process of composition algebras can be extended to a doubling process of composition triples. As the author shows this is actually the case. The author uses this generalized Cayley-Dickson doubling process to construct composition triples of rank eight.