Octonion multiplication and Heawood’s map
Confluentes Mathematici, Tome 5 (2013) no. 2, pp. 79-85.

In this note, the octonion multiplication table is recovered from a regular tesselation of the equilateral two timensional torus by seven hexagons, also known as Heawood’s map.

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DOI : 10.5802/cml.9
Classification : 17A35, 05C10, 05C25
Bruno Sévennec 1

1 UMPA, ENS-Lyon, CNRS, 46 Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France.
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Bruno Sévennec. Octonion multiplication and Heawood’s map. Confluentes Mathematici, Tome 5 (2013) no. 2, pp. 79-85. doi : 10.5802/cml.9. https://cml.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/cml.9/

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