A Non-Orthogonal Cayley-Dickson Doubling

Let R  be an integral domain in which 2 is not an invertible element, with quotient field K  of characteristic not 2. A construction method for octonion algebras over R  is presented for which the resulting algebra does not necessarily contain a composition subalgebra.

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