The only nonassociative division algebra with real scalars. There is an 8-square identity corresponding to this algebra.
The elements of a Cayley algebra are called Cayley numbers or octonions, and the multiplication
table for any Cayley algebra over a field with field characteristic
may be taken as shown in the following
table, where
,
, ...,
are a bases over
and
,
, and
are nonzero elements of
(Schafer 1996, pp. 5-6).