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

DOI10.1216/RMJ-1989-19-3-749MaRDI QIDQ802652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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