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We prove that an irreducible binary (−1, 1)-bimodule over A is alternative in the following cases: (a) A is a composition algebra over a field of characteristic other than 2 and 3; (b) A is a simple finite-dimensional alternative algebra over a field of characteristic 0.
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Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 1139–1146, September–October, 2006.
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Pchelintsev, S.V. Irreducible binary (−1, 1)-bimodules over simple finite-dimensional algebras. Sib Math J 47, 934–939 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11202-006-0104-8
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