The etale Tits process of Jordan algebras revisited

It is shown that any absolutely simple Jordan algebra J of degree 3 and dimension 9 can be reached by the etale Tits process from any cubic etale subalgebra. Criteria for two etale Tits processes to be isomorphic are also given. As an application, embeddings from a fixed cubic etale algebra into J up to eqivalence are classified by their norm classes.

(This paper has appeared in J. Algebra 273 (2004), 88 - 107)


H.P. Petersson < holger.petersson@fernuni-hagen.de >

M.L. Thakur < maneesh@mri.ernet.in >