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Keywords:
string diagram; vector product; bilinear form; braiding; monoidal dual
string diagram; vector product; bilinear form; braiding; monoidal dual
Summary:
This is an account of some work of Markus Rost and his students Dominik Boos and Susanne Maurer. It concerns the possible dimensions for composition (also called Hurwitz) algebras. We adapt the work to the braided monoidal setting.
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