Prime factorization of integral Cayley octaves

DOI10.5802/AFST.767MaRDI QIDQ1327535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Peter Rehm

Publication date 19 June 1994

Published in Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AFST_1993_6_2_2_271_0, https://eudml.org/doc/73322

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic proof of Jacobi's formulaCayley-Dickson algebrasums of eight squaresunique prime factorization for integral octaves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Alternative rings (17D05)

Review text

As observed by Coxeter, there is a maximal order of integral octaves (the even unimodular lattice of dimension 8) admitting also some division with remainder. Unlike the associative case, however, it seems to have been unknown how to use this property for computing common divisors. But in this paper, the author develops such an algorithm and, as a consequence, he obtains unique prime factorization for integral octaves. This result allows him to give an algebraic proof of Jacobi's formula for sums of eight squares.

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