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of the octonions. A general element in SO(8) can be described as the product of 7 left-multiplications, 7 right-multiplications and also 7 bimultiplications by unit octonions (a bimultiplication being the composition of a left-multiplication and a right-multiplication by the same octonion and is
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It can be shown that an element of SO(8) can be constructed with bimultiplications, by first showing that pairs of reflections through the origin in 8-dimensional space correspond to pairs of bimultiplications by unit octonions. The
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vector representation, of Spin(8) are all eight-dimensional (for all other spin groups the spinor representation is either smaller or larger than the vector representation). The triality
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be the corresponding products of left and right multiplications by the conjugates (i.e., the multiplicative inverses) of the same unit octonions, so
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automorphism of Spin(8) described below provides similar constructions with left multiplications and right multiplications.
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Sometimes Spin(8) appears naturally in an "enlarged" form, as the automorphism group of Spin(8), which breaks up as a
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is an isotopy. As a result of the non-associativity of the octonions, the only other orthogonal isotopy for
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that permutes these three representations. The automorphism group acts on the center
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can be described as the product of bimultiplications of unit octonions, say
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Multiplicative inverses of octonions are two-sided, which means that
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can be permuted cyclically to give two further isotopies
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under the Dynkin classification), possesses a three-fold
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The algebraic theory of spinors and Clifford algebras
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has 4! × 8 = 192 elements.
2149:. This "triality" automorphism is exceptional among 1145:unambiguously defined due to octonions obeying the 2756:John H. Conway; Derek A. Smith (23 January 2003). 2701: 2538: 2487: 2436: 2385: 2334: 2283: 2223: 2197: 2177: 2141: 2105: 2067: 2029: 1991: 1959: 1924: 1892: 1860: 1816: 1796: 1758: 1682: 1606: 1560: 1494: 1474: 1442:, the isotopy is called an orthogonal isotopy. If 1434: 1397:{\displaystyle x^{\alpha }y^{\beta }z^{\gamma }=1} 1396: 1343: 1305: 1273: 1235: 1197: 865: 498: 473: 436: 2814:, Collected works, vol. 2, Springer-Verlag, 2751: 2749: 1475:{\displaystyle \gamma \in \operatorname {SO(8)} } 1059:(which also has automorphism group isomorphic to 16:Rotation group in 8-dimensional Euclidean space 1561:{\displaystyle \gamma =B_{u_{1}}...B_{u_{n}}} 1243:, it can be shown that this is equivalent to 1124:Elements of SO(8) can be described with unit 923:, the diagonal matrices {±I} (as for all SO(2 800: 8: 1018:. Related to this is the fact that the two 2838:Clifford algebras and the classical groups 1861:{\displaystyle (-\alpha ,-\beta ,\gamma )} 1070:over the finite field with two elements, 807: 793: 245: 71: 36: 2581: 2579: 2501: 2450: 2399: 2348: 2297: 2246: 2231:are only uniquely determined up to sign. 2210: 2190: 2158: 2122: 2080: 2042: 2004: 1972: 1940: 1905: 1873: 1829: 1809: 1771: 1744: 1738: 1713: 1707: 1695: 1668: 1662: 1637: 1631: 1619: 1587: 1573: 1550: 1545: 1524: 1519: 1507: 1487: 1455: 1447: 1415: 1413: 1408:. If the three maps of an isotopy are in 1382: 1372: 1362: 1356: 1318: 1286: 1248: 1210: 1191: 1190: 1170: 852: 492: 491: 489: 467: 466: 464: 430: 429: 427: 2142:{\displaystyle \operatorname {Spin} (8)} 2106:{\displaystyle (\gamma ,\alpha ,\beta )} 2068:{\displaystyle (\beta ,\gamma ,\alpha )} 2030:{\displaystyle (\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma )} 1925:{\displaystyle \operatorname {Spin} (8)} 1797:{\displaystyle (\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma )} 1344:{\displaystyle (\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma )} 2745: 2153:. There is no triality automorphism of 835:. It could be either a real or complex 363: 129: 39: 2178:{\displaystyle \operatorname {SO} (8)} 1893:{\displaystyle \operatorname {SO} (8)} 1435:{\displaystyle \operatorname {SO(8)} } 1037:of Spin(8) which is isomorphic to the 847:Like all special orthogonal groups of 365:Classification of finite simple groups 1351:that preserve this identity, so that 1198:{\displaystyle x,y,z\in \mathbb {O} } 931:≥ 4), while the center of Spin(8) is 7: 1313:without ambiguity. A triple of maps 1066:which may also be considered as the 2789:, Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, 2787:Lectures on exceptional Lie groups 1999:. This means that a given isotopy 1766:. A simple calculation shows that 1591: 1588: 1459: 1456: 1419: 1416: 14: 2825:(originally published in 1954 by 2539:{\displaystyle (0,0,\pm 1,\pm 1)} 2488:{\displaystyle (0,\pm 1,0,\pm 1)} 2437:{\displaystyle (0,\pm 1,\pm 1,0)} 2386:{\displaystyle (\pm 1,0,0,\pm 1)} 2335:{\displaystyle (\pm 1,0,\pm 1,0)} 2284:{\displaystyle (\pm 1,\pm 1,0,0)} 997: 992: 987: 982: 977: 57: 2533: 2503: 2482: 2452: 2431: 2401: 2380: 2350: 2329: 2299: 2278: 2248: 2224:{\displaystyle \alpha ,\beta } 2172: 2166: 2136: 2130: 2100: 2082: 2062: 2044: 2024: 2006: 1919: 1913: 1887: 1881: 1855: 1831: 1791: 1773: 1600: 1594: 1468: 1462: 1428: 1422: 1338: 1320: 1262: 1253: 1221: 1212: 726:Infinite dimensional Lie group 1: 2759:On Quaternions and Octonions 1750: 1719: 1674: 1643: 839:of rank 4 and dimension 28. 831:acting on eight-dimensional 499:{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } 474:{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } 437:{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } 2791:University of Chicago Press 2113:. 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Index


D4
Dynkin diagram
Algebraic structure
Group theory

Subgroup
Normal subgroup
Group action
Quotient group
(Semi-)
direct product
Direct sum
Free product
Wreath product
Group homomorphisms
kernel
image
simple
finite
infinite
continuous
multiplicative
additive
cyclic
abelian
dihedral
nilpotent
solvable
Glossary of group theory

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