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eja: normalize the real symmetric matrix basis.
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@@ -100,16 +100,48 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
 
     """
     def __init__(self, elt):
-        superalgebra = elt.parent()
+        self._superalgebra = elt.parent()
+        category = self._superalgebra.category().Associative()
+        V = self._superalgebra.vector_space()
+        field = self._superalgebra.base_ring()
+
+        # A half-assed attempt to ensure that we don't collide with
+        # the superalgebra's prefix (ignoring the fact that there
+        # could be super-superelgrbas in scope). If possible, we
+        # try to "increment" the parent algebra's prefix, although
+        # this idea goes out the window fast because some prefixen
+        # are off-limits.
+        prefixen = [ 'f', 'g', 'h', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ]
+        try:
+            prefix = prefixen[prefixen.index(self._superalgebra.prefix()) + 1]
+        except ValueError:
+            prefix = prefixen[0]
+
+        if elt.is_zero():
+            # Short circuit because 0^0 == 1 is going to make us
+            # think we have a one-dimensional algebra otherwise.
+            natural_basis = tuple()
+            mult_table = tuple()
+            rank = 0
+            self._vector_space = V.zero_subspace()
+            self._superalgebra_basis = []
+            fdeja = super(FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra,
+                          self)
+            return fdeja.__init__(field,
+                                  mult_table,
+                                  rank,
+                                  prefix=prefix,
+                                  category=category,
+                                  natural_basis=natural_basis)
+
 
         # First compute the vector subspace spanned by the powers of
         # the given element.
-        V = superalgebra.vector_space()
-        superalgebra_basis = [superalgebra.one()]
+        superalgebra_basis = [self._superalgebra.one()]
         # If our superalgebra is a subalgebra of something else, then
         # superalgebra.one().to_vector() won't have the right
         # coordinates unless we use V.from_vector() below.
-        basis_vectors = [V.from_vector(superalgebra.one().to_vector())]
+        basis_vectors = [V.from_vector(self._superalgebra.one().to_vector())]
         W = V.span_of_basis(basis_vectors)
         for exponent in range(1, V.dimension()):
             new_power = elt**exponent
@@ -128,7 +160,6 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
         # Now figure out the entries of the right-multiplication
         # matrix for the successive basis elements b0, b1,... of
         # that subspace.
-        field = superalgebra.base_ring()
         n = len(superalgebra_basis)
         mult_table = [[W.zero() for i in range(n)] for j in range(n)]
         for i in range(n):
@@ -141,18 +172,6 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
                 product_vector = V.from_vector(product.to_vector())
                 mult_table[i][j] = W.coordinate_vector(product_vector)
 
-        # A half-assed attempt to ensure that we don't collide with
-        # the superalgebra's prefix (ignoring the fact that there
-        # could be super-superelgrbas in scope). If possible, we
-        # try to "increment" the parent algebra's prefix, although
-        # this idea goes out the window fast because some prefixen
-        # are off-limits.
-        prefixen = [ 'f', 'g', 'h', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ]
-        try:
-            prefix = prefixen[prefixen.index(superalgebra.prefix()) + 1]
-        except ValueError:
-            prefix = prefixen[0]
-
         # The rank is the highest possible degree of a minimal
         # polynomial, and is bounded above by the dimension. We know
         # in this case that there's an element whose minimal
@@ -161,11 +180,10 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
         # its rank too.
         rank = W.dimension()
 
-        category = superalgebra.category().Associative()
         natural_basis = tuple( b.natural_representation()
                                for b in superalgebra_basis )
 
-        self._superalgebra = superalgebra
+
         self._vector_space = W
         self._superalgebra_basis = superalgebra_basis
 
@@ -179,6 +197,30 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
                               natural_basis=natural_basis)
 
 
+    def _a_regular_element(self):
+        """
+        Override the superalgebra method to return the one
+        regular element that is sure to exist in this
+        subalgebra, namely the element that generated it.
+
+        SETUP::
+
+            sage: from mjo.eja.eja_algebra import random_eja
+
+        TESTS::
+
+            sage: set_random_seed()
+            sage: J = random_eja().random_element().subalgebra_generated_by()
+            sage: J._a_regular_element().is_regular()
+            True
+
+        """
+        if self.dimension() == 0:
+            return self.zero()
+        else:
+            return self.monomial(1)
+
+
     def _element_constructor_(self, elt):
         """
         Construct an element of this subalgebra from the given one.
@@ -265,7 +307,22 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
             sage: actual == expected
             True
         """
-        return self.monomial(self.one_basis())
+        if self.dimension() == 0:
+            return self.zero()
+        else:
+            return self.monomial(self.one_basis())
+
+
+    def natural_basis_space(self):
+        """
+        Return the natural basis space of this algebra, which is identical
+        to that of its superalgebra.
+
+        This is correct "by definition," and avoids a mismatch when the
+        subalgebra is trivial (with no natural basis to infer anything
+        from) and the parent is not.
+        """
+        return self.superalgebra().natural_basis_space()
 
 
     def superalgebra(self):
@@ -285,20 +342,20 @@ class FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(FiniteDimensionalEuclide
         EXAMPLES::
 
             sage: J = RealSymmetricEJA(3)
-            sage: x = sum( i*J.gens()[i] for i in range(6) )
+            sage: x = J.monomial(0) + 2*J.monomial(2) + 5*J.monomial(5)
             sage: K = FiniteDimensionalEuclideanJordanElementSubalgebra(x)
             sage: K.vector_space()
-            Vector space of degree 6 and dimension 3 over Rational Field
+            Vector space of degree 6 and dimension 3 over...
             User basis matrix:
             [ 1  0  1  0  0  1]
-            [ 0  1  2  3  4  5]
-            [10 14 21 19 31 50]
+            [ 1  0  2  0  0  5]
+            [ 1  0  4  0  0 25]
             sage: (x^0).to_vector()
             (1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1)
             sage: (x^1).to_vector()
-            (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
+            (1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 5)
             sage: (x^2).to_vector()
-            (10, 14, 21, 19, 31, 50)
+            (1, 0, 4, 0, 0, 25)
 
         """
         return self._vector_space