Download or read book Octonions Jordan Algebras and Exceptional Groups written by Tonny A. Springer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1963 Göttingen notes of T. A. Springer are well known in the field but have been unavailable for some time. This book is a translation of those notes, completely updated and revised. The part of the book dealing with the algebraic structures is on a fairly elementary level, presupposing basic results from algebra.
Download or read book Jordan Algebras and Algebraic Groups written by Tonny A. Springer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reviews: "This book presents an important and novel approach to Jordan algebras. [...] Springer's work will be of service to research workers familiar with linear algebraic groups who find they need to know something about Jordan algebras and will provide Jordan algebraists with new techniques and a new approach to finite-dimensional algebras over fields." American Scientist
Download or read book A Taste of Jordan Algebras written by Kevin McCrimmon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the history of Jordan algebras and describes in full mathematical detail the recent structure theory for Jordan algebras of arbitrary dimension due to Efim Zel'manov. Jordan algebras crop up in many surprising settings, and find application to a variety of mathematical areas. No knowledge is required beyond standard first-year graduate algebra courses.
Download or read book Structure and Representations of Jordan Algebras written by Nathan Jacobson and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1968-12-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of Jordan algebras has played important roles behind the scenes of several areas of mathematics. Jacobson's book has long been the definitive treatment of the subject. It covers foundational material, structure theory, and representation theory for Jordan algebras. Of course, there are immediate connections with Lie algebras, which Jacobson details in Chapter 8. Of particular continuing interest is the discussion of exceptional Jordan algebras, which serve to explain the exceptional Lie algebras and Lie groups. Jordan algebras originally arose in the attempts by Jordan, von Neumann, and Wigner to formulate the foundations of quantum mechanics. They are still useful and important in modern mathematical physics, as well as in Lie theory, geometry, and certain areas of analysis.
Download or read book Jordan Structures in Lie Algebras written by Antonio Fernández López and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores applications of Jordan theory to the theory of Lie algebras. After presenting the general theory of nonassociative algebras and of Lie algebras, the book then explains how properties of the Jordan algebra attached to a Jordan element of a Lie algebra can be used to reveal properties of the Lie algebra itself.
Download or read book Jordan Algebras in Analysis Operator Theory and Quantum Mechanics written by Harald Upmeier and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan algebras have found interesting applications in seemingly unrelated areas of mathematics such as operator theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, complex analysis in finite and infinite dimensions, and harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces. This book describes some relevant results and puts them in a general framework.
Download or read book Statistical Applications of Jordan Algebras written by James D. Malley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph brings together my work in mathematical statistics as I have viewed it through the lens of Jordan algebras. Three technical domains are to be seen: applications to random quadratic forms (sums of squares), the investigation of algebraic simplifications of maxi mum likelihood estimation of patterned covariance matrices, and a more wide open mathematical exploration of the algebraic arena from which I have drawn the results used in the statistical problems just mentioned. Chapters 1, 2, and 4 present the statistical outcomes I have developed using the algebraic results that appear, for the most part, in Chapter 3. As a less daunting, yet quite efficient, point of entry into this material, one avoiding most of the abstract algebraic issues, the reader may use the first half of Chapter 4. Here I present a streamlined, but still fully rigorous, definition of a Jordan algebra (as it is used in that chapter) and its essential properties. These facts are then immediately applied to simplifying the M:-step of the EM algorithm for multivariate normal covariance matrix estimation, in the presence of linear constraints, and data missing completely at random. The results presented essentially resolve a practical statistical quest begun by Rubin and Szatrowski [1982], and continued, sometimes implicitly, by many others. After this, one could then return to Chapters 1 and 2 to see how I have attempted to generalize the work of Cochran, Rao, Mitra, and others, on important and useful properties of sums of squares.
Download or read book Jordan Algebras and Algebraic Groups written by Tonny A. Springer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reviews: "This book presents an important and novel approach to Jordan algebras. [...] Springer's work will be of service to research workers familiar with linear algebraic groups who find they need to know something about Jordan algebras and will provide Jordan algebraists with new techniques and a new approach to finite-dimensional algebras over fields." American Scientist
Download or read book The Minnesota Notes on Jordan Algebras and Their Applications written by Max Koecher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a re-edition of Max Koecher's famous Minnesota Notes. The main objects are homogeneous, but not necessarily convex, cones. They are described in terms of Jordan algebras. The central point is a correspondence between semisimple real Jordan algebras and so-called omega-domains. This leads to a construction of half-spaces which give an essential part of all bounded symmetric domains. The theory is presented in a concise manner, with only elementary prerequisites. The editors have added notes on each chapter containing an account of the relevant developments of the theory since these notes were first written.
Download or read book An Introduction to Nonassociative Algebras written by Richard D. Schafer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise graduate-level introductory study presents some of the important ideas and results in the theory of nonassociative algebras. Places particular emphasis on alternative and (commutative) Jordan algebras. 1966 edition.
Download or read book The Arithmetics of Quadratic Jordan Algebras written by Michel L. Racine and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1973 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first step in obtaining an arithmetic theory for finite dimensional quadratic Jordan algebras over the quotient field of a Dedekind ring is the determination of maximal orders. This is the main concern of this paper. Jordan analogues of some of the first theorems in classical associative arithmetic are obtained. For special quadratic Jordan algebras, the problem of determining maximal orders is reduced to arithmetic questions in quadratic forms and associative algebras with involution. The number of isomorphism classes of maximal orders is computed for most central simple quadratic Jordan algebras over a local field. In the process, previous results of Knebusch are obtained in a uniform fashion and are extended to the case of algebras over fields of characteristic 2 and 3.
Download or read book Finite Dimensional Division Algebras over Fields written by Nathan Jacobson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the eminent algebraist, Nathan Jacobsen, concentrates on those algebras that have an involution. Although they appear in many contexts, these algebras first arose in the study of the so-called "multiplication algebras of Riemann matrices". Of particular interest are the Jordan algebras determined by such algebras, and thus their structure is discussed in detail. Two important concepts also dealt with are the universal enveloping algebras and the reduced norm. However, the largest part of the book is the fifth chapter, which focuses on involutorial simple algebras of finite dimension over a field.
Download or read book Jordan Algebras of Self Adjoint Operators written by David M. Topping and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1965 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geometry of State Spaces of Operator Algebras written by Erik M. Alfsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we give a complete geometric description of state spaces of operator algebras, Jordan as well as associative. That is, we give axiomatic characterizations of those convex sets that are state spaces of C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras, together with such characterizations for the normed Jordan algebras called JB-algebras and JBW-algebras. These non associative algebras generalize C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras re spectively, and the characterization of their state spaces is not only of interest in itself, but is also an important intermediate step towards the characterization of the state spaces of the associative algebras. This book gives a complete and updated presentation of the character ization theorems of [10]' [11] and [71]. Our previous book State spaces of operator algebras: basic theory, orientations and C*-products, referenced as [AS] in the sequel, gives an account of the necessary prerequisites on C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras, as well as a discussion of the key notion of orientations of state spaces. For the convenience of the reader, we have summarized these prerequisites in an appendix which contains all relevant definitions and results (listed as (AI), (A2), ... ), with reference back to [AS] for proofs, so that this book is self-contained.
Download or read book The Geometry of Jordan and Lie Structures written by Wolfgang Bertram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geometry of Jordan and Lie structures tries to answer the following question: what is the integrated, or geometric, version of real Jordan algebras, - triple systems and - pairs? Lie theory shows the way one has to go: Lie groups and symmetric spaces are the geometric version of Lie algebras and Lie triple systems. It turns out that both geometries are closely related via a functor between them, called the Jordan-Lie functor, which is constructed in this book. The reader is not assumed to have any knowledge of Jordan theory; the text can serve as a self-contained introduction to (real finite-dimensional) Jordan theory.
Download or read book Jordan Algebras written by Wilhelm Kaup and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is aimed specifically at publishing peer reviewed reviews and contributions presented at workshops and conferences. Each volume is associated with a particular conference, symposium or workshop. These events cover various topics within pure and applied mathematics and provide up-to-date coverage of new developments, methods and applications.
Download or read book On The Role Of Division Jordan And Related Algebras In Particle Physics written by Feza Gursey and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph surveys the role of some associative and non-associative algebras, remarkable by their ubiquitous appearance in contemporary theoretical physics, particularly in particle physics. It concerns the interplay between division algebras, specifically quaternions and octonions, between Jordan and related algebras on the one hand, and unified theories of the basic interactions on the other. Selected applications of these algebraic structures are discussed: quaternion analyticity of Yang-Mills instantons, octonionic aspects of exceptional broken gauge, supergravity theories, division algebras in anyonic phenomena and in theories of extended objects in critical dimensions. The topics presented deal primarily with original contributions by the authors.
