- Q = QuaternionAlgebra(QQ,-1,-1)
- I,J,K = Q.gens()
-
- # This is like the symmetric case, but we need to be careful:
- #
- # * We want conjugate-symmetry, not just symmetry.
- # * The diagonal will (as a result) be real.
- #
- S = []
- for i in xrange(n):
- for j in xrange(i+1):
- Eij = matrix(Q, n, lambda k,l: k==i and l==j)
- if i == j:
- Sij = _embed_quaternion_matrix(Eij)
- S.append(Sij)
- else:
- # Beware, orthogonal but not normalized! The second,
- # third, and fourth ones have a minus because they're
- # conjugated.
- Sij_real = _embed_quaternion_matrix(Eij + Eij.transpose())
- S.append(Sij_real)
- Sij_I = _embed_quaternion_matrix(I*Eij - I*Eij.transpose())
- S.append(Sij_I)
- Sij_J = _embed_quaternion_matrix(J*Eij - J*Eij.transpose())
- S.append(Sij_J)
- Sij_K = _embed_quaternion_matrix(K*Eij - K*Eij.transpose())
- S.append(Sij_K)
- return tuple(S)
-
-
-
-def _multiplication_table_from_matrix_basis(basis):
- """
- At least three of the five simple Euclidean Jordan algebras have the
- symmetric multiplication (A,B) |-> (AB + BA)/2, where the
- multiplication on the right is matrix multiplication. Given a basis
- for the underlying matrix space, this function returns a
- multiplication table (obtained by looping through the basis
- elements) for an algebra of those matrices. A reordered copy
- of the basis is also returned to work around the fact that
- the ``span()`` in this function will change the order of the basis
- from what we think it is, to... something else.
- """
- # In S^2, for example, we nominally have four coordinates even
- # though the space is of dimension three only. The vector space V
- # is supposed to hold the entire long vector, and the subspace W
- # of V will be spanned by the vectors that arise from symmetric
- # matrices. Thus for S^2, dim(V) == 4 and dim(W) == 3.
- field = basis[0].base_ring()
- dimension = basis[0].nrows()
-
- V = VectorSpace(field, dimension**2)
- W = V.span( _mat2vec(s) for s in basis )
-
- # Taking the span above reorders our basis (thanks, jerk!) so we
- # need to put our "matrix basis" in the same order as the
- # (reordered) vector basis.
- S = tuple( _vec2mat(b) for b in W.basis() )
-
- Qs = []
- for s in S:
- # Brute force the multiplication-by-s matrix by looping
- # through all elements of the basis and doing the computation
- # to find out what the corresponding row should be. BEWARE:
- # these multiplication tables won't be symmetric! It therefore
- # becomes REALLY IMPORTANT that the underlying algebra
- # constructor uses ROW vectors and not COLUMN vectors. That's
- # why we're computing rows here and not columns.
- Q_rows = []
- for t in S:
- this_row = _mat2vec((s*t + t*s)/2)
- Q_rows.append(W.coordinates(this_row))
- Q = matrix(field, W.dimension(), Q_rows)
- Qs.append(Q)
-
- return (Qs, S)
-
-
-def _embed_complex_matrix(M):
- """
- Embed the n-by-n complex matrix ``M`` into the space of real
- matrices of size 2n-by-2n via the map the sends each entry `z = a +
- bi` to the block matrix ``[[a,b],[-b,a]]``.