Aharon Razon - Orthogonal Idempotents in Symmetric Tensor Powers of Composition Algebras

cm:18005 - Communications in Mathematics, June 26, 2026, Volume 34 (2026), Issue 1 - https://doi.org/10.46298/cm.18005
Orthogonal Idempotents in Symmetric Tensor Powers of Composition AlgebrasArticle

Authors: Aharon Razon

We explicitly find a complete set of ${1\over4}(n+2)^2$ (resp. ${1\over4}(n+1)(n+3)$) primitive orthogonal idempotents in ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H}\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C}$ if $n$ is even (resp. odd), where ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H}$ is the $n^{\it th}$ symmetric power of the Hamilton quaternion algebra $\mathbb{H}$. We also give a complete set of ${1\over4}(n+2)^2$ (resp. ${1\over8}(n+1)(n+3)$) primitive orthogonal idempotents in ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H}$ if $n$ is even (resp. odd). Moreover, we explicitly find a complete set of ${1\over24}(n+2)(n+3)(n+4)$ (resp. ${1\over24}(n+1)(n+3)(n+5)$) primitive orthogonal idempotents in the associative subalgebra $\big({\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H}\cdot Z({\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O})\big)\otimes_{\mathbb{R}}\mathbb{C}$ of ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O}\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C}$ if $n$ is even (resp. odd), where ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O}$ is the $n^{\it th}$ symmetric power of the Cayley octonion algebra $\mathbb{O}$ and $Z({\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O})$ is its center. We also give a complete set of ${1\over24}(n+2)(n+3)(n+4)$ (resp. ${1\over48}(n+1)(n+3)(n+5)$) primitive orthogonal idempotents in the associative subalgebra ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{H}\cdot Z({\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O})$ of ${\rm Sym}^n\mathbb{O}$ if $n$ is even (resp. odd).


Volume: Volume 34 (2026), Issue 1
Published on: June 26, 2026
Accepted on: June 17, 2026
Submitted on: April 14, 2026
Keywords: Rings and Algebras

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