The Grassmann envelope of the Kac superalgebra sK10

We investigate in detail the structure of the Grassmann envelope of the split Kac superalgebra sK10 over an arbitrary ring of scalars, verifying that it is indeed a quadratic Jordan algebra, generically algebraic of degree at most 9, and obtain the bizarre result that in characteristic 5 (but not otherwise) it is the Jordan algebra of a sharped cubic form.

K. McCrimmon < kmm4m@virginia.edu >