Nonassociativity of the Norton algebras of some distance regular graphs

DOI10.37236/9382zbMATH Open1453.05137arXiv2001.05547OpenAlexW3110326489MaRDI QIDQ2213802FDOQ2213802

Authors: Jia Huang 

Publication date: 3 December 2020

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A Norton algebra is an eigenspace of a distance regular graph endowed with a commutative nonassociative product called the Norton product, which is defined as the projection of the entrywise product onto this eigenspace. The Norton algebras are useful in finite group theory as they have interesting automorphism groups. We provide a precise quantitative measurement for the nonassociativity of the Norton product on the eigenspace of the second largest eigenvalue of the Johnson graphs, Grassman graphs, Hamming graphs, and dual polar graphs, based on the formulas for this product established in previous work of Levstein, Maldonado and Penazzi. Our result shows that this product is as nonassociative as possible except for two cases, one being the trivial vanishing case while the other having connections with the integer sequence A000975 on OEIS and the so-called double minus operation studied recently by Huang, Mickey, and Xu.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05547

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zbMATH Keywords

Johnson graphsHamming graphsdual polar graphsGrassman graphsNorton product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Other nonassociative rings and algebras (17D99) Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (05E16)

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• Lattices, frames and Norton algebras of dual polar graphs
• Norton algebras of the Hamming graphs via linear characters
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