The only known simple alternative rings which are not associative are the Cayley algebras. Every such algebra has a scalar extension which is isomorphic over its center F to the algebra where . The elements e11 and e00 are orthogonal idempotents an , for every xij of . The multiplication table of C is then completed by the relations
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A. A. Albert (1952) studied this question.