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Idempotents of the Norton-Sakuma algebras

Castillo-Ramirez, A.

Authors

A. Castillo-Ramirez



Abstract

The concept of Majorana representation was introduced by A. A. Ivanov (2009), as a tool to identify and study subalgebras of the Conway–Griess–Norton Monster algebra . Sakuma's theorem in “6-transposition property of -involutions of vertex operator algebras”, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2007 (2007), Article ID rnm030, states that there are eight possibilities for the isomorphism type of an algebra with scalar product generated by a pair of distinct Majorana axes. These algebras, now known as the Norton–Sakuma algebras, were described by S. P. Norton (1982) as 2-generated subalgebras of and labelled by types , , , , , , and . In the present paper, we contribute to the understanding of the Norton–Sakuma algebras by finding all their idempotent elements and their automorphism groups. In particular, we find that an algebra of type has infinitely many idempotents of length 2, and that an algebra of type has exactly 208 idempotents.

Citation

Castillo-Ramirez, A. (2013). Idempotents of the Norton-Sakuma algebras. Journal of Group Theory, 16(3), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1515/jgt-2012-0048

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date May 2, 2013
Deposit Date Feb 19, 2015
Journal Journal of Group Theory
Print ISSN 1433-5883
Electronic ISSN 1435-4446
Publisher De Gruyter
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 3
Pages 419-444
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/jgt-2012-0048

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