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Coby Pines

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The images of multilinear and semihomogeneous polynomials on the algebra of octonions

The generalized L'vov-Kaplansky conjecture states that for any finite-dimensional simple algebra $A$ the image of a multilinear polynomial on $A$ is a vector space. In this paper we prove it for the algebra of octonions $\mathbb{O}$ over a field satisfying certain specified conditions (in particular, we prove it for quadratically closed field and for field $\mathbb{R}$). In fact, we prove that the image set must be either $\{0\}$, $F$, the space of pure octonions $V$, or $\mathbb{O}$. We discuss possible evaluations of semihomogeneous polynomials on $\mathbb{O}$ and of arbitrary polynomials on the corresponding Malcev algebra.

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The images of multilinear non-associative polynomials evaluated on a rock-paper-scissors algebra with unit over an arbitrary field

Let ${\mathbb F}$ be an arbitrary field. We consider a commutative, non-associative, $4$-dimensional algebra ${\mathfrak M}$ of the rock, the paper and the scissors with unit over ${\mathbb F}$ and we prove that the image over ${\mathfrak M}$ of every non-associative multilinear polynomial over ${\mathbb F}$ is a vector space. The same question we consider for two subalgebras: an algebra of the rock, the paper and the scissors without unit, and an algebra of trace zero elements with zero scalar part. Moreover in this paper we consider the questions of possible evaluations of homogeneous polynomials on these algebras.

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