This paper investigates the effect of structure-preserving perturbations on the eigenvalues of linearly and nonlinearly structured eigenvalue problems. Particular attention is paid to structures that form Jordan algebras, Lie algebras, and automorphism groups of a scalar product. Bounds and computable expressions for structured eigenvalue condition numbers are derived for these classes of matri...

The Cayley-Dickson process gives a recursive method of constructing a nonassociative algebra of dimension 2 for all n 0, beginning with any ring of scalars. The algebras in this sequence are known to be flexible quadratic algebras; it follows that they are noncommutative Jordan algebras: they satisfy the flexible identity in degree 3 and the Jordan identity in degree 4. For the integral sedenio...

In this talk we introduce the notion of a generalized representation of a Jordan algebra with unit which has the following properties: 1) Usual representations and Jacobson representations correspond to special cases of generalized representations. 2) Every simple Jordan algebra has infinitely many nonequivalent generalized representations. 3) There is a one-to-one correspondence between irredu...

Albert algebras and other Jordan algebras are constructed over curves of genus zero and one, using a generalization of the Tits process and the first Tits construction due to Achhammer.