On the Clifford-Littlewood-Eckmann groups: A new look at periodicity mod 8

DOI10.1216/RMJ-1989-19-3-749zbMATH Open0726.11025OpenAlexW1981116469MaRDI QIDQ802652FDOQ802652

Authors: T. Y. Lam, Tara L. Smith 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1216/rmj-1989-19-3-749

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zbMATH Keywords

unitsirreducible representationsClifford algebrascomposition of quadratic formsHurwitz problemcentral involutionClifford-Littlewood-Eckmann groupsgeneralized Hurwitz-Radon functionsmaximal elementary abelian subgroupsperiodicity formulastheorem of Wall

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Quadratic spaces; Clifford algebras (11E88) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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