Most quantum logics do not allow for a reasonable calculus of conditional probability. However, those ones which do so provide a very general and rich mathematical structure, including classical probabilities, quantum mechanics, and Jordan algebras. This structure exhibits some similarities with Alfsen and Shultz’s noncommutative spectral theory, but these twomathematical approaches are not ide...

Let E/k be a cubic field extension and J a simple exceptional Jordan algebra of degree 3 over k. Then £ is a reducing field of J if and only if E is isomorphic to a (maximal) subfield of some isotope of /. If k has characteristic not 2 or 3 and contains the third roots of unity then every simple exceptional Jordan division algebra of degree 3 over k contains a cyclic cubic subfield. Exceptional...

We find the normal form of nilpotent elements in semisimple Lie algebras that generalizes Jordan slN, using theory cyclic elements.

The purpose of this paper is to establish a connection between semisimple Jordan algebras and certain invariant differential operators on symmetric spaces; and to prove an identity for such operators which generalizes the classical Capelli identity. The norm function on a simple real Jordan algebra gives rise to invariant differential operators Dm on a certain symmetric space which is a natural...

We consider possible non-signaling composites of probabilistic models based on euclidean Jordan algebras. Subject to some reasonable constraints, we show that no such composite exists having the exceptional Jordan algebra as a direct summand. We then construct several dagger compact categories of such Jordan-algebraic models. One of these neatly unifies real, complex and quaternionic mixed-stat...

In this paper we construct a family of small unitary representations for real semisimple Lie groups associated with Jordan algebras. These representations are realized on L-spaces of certain orbits in the Jordan algebra. The representations are spherical and one of our key results is a precise L-estimate for the Fourier transform of the spherical vector. We also consider the tensor products of ...

In the paper “Is there a Jordan geometry underlying quantum physics?” [Be08], generalized projective geometries have been proposed as a framework for a geometric formulation of Quantum Theory. In the present note, we refine this proposition by discussing further structural features of Quantum Theory: the link with associative involutive algebras A and with Jordan-Lie and Lie-Jordan algebas. The...