When the Khanhnion Commutator Becomes a Lie Bracket: Associative Internal Products, Cross-Type Brackets, and a Sufficient Condition for the Jacobi Identity

This paper identifies a sufficient condition under which the commutator of the 128-dimensional Khanhnion scalar–vector extension defines a Lie bracket on its 96-dimensional vector sector.

Paper 7 introduced the algebra

A = (R ⊕ R³) ⊗ W,

where W is a 32-dimensional internal algebra. For a commutative internal product β, the commutator of two elements has no scalar component and lies in the vector sector:

[A, B]⊙ = (0, 2Cβ(x, y)).

Paper 9 showed that, for componentwise symmetrized sedenion multiplication, the induced bracket does not satisfy the Jacobi identity.

This paper proves the complementary result: if the internal product β is commutative and associative, then the bracket

{x, y} = 2Cβ(x, y)

satisfies the Jacobi identity. Therefore, it is a Lie bracket on the 96-dimensional vector sector.

Here

(Cβ(x, y))k = Σ εijk β(xi, yj),

where εijk is the Levi-Civita symbol.

The proof reduces the Jacobi expression to the classical vector triple-product identity. Associativity handles the internal parentheses, while commutativity ensures the required cancellations.

A concrete example is obtained by taking

W = R³²

with componentwise multiplication. This internal product is commutative and associative. The resulting 128-dimensional algebra is unital and rotation-equivariant, and its vector-sector commutator is a Lie bracket.

The paper emphasizes that only the commutator restricts to a Lie bracket. The full 128-dimensional product is not anticommutative, so the full algebra itself is not a Lie algebra.

The result contrasts with Paper 9:

- Symmetrized sedenion multiplication is commutative but nonassociative; Jacobi fails.
- Componentwise multiplication on R³² is commutative and associative; Jacobi holds.

No claim is made that commutativity and associativity are necessary for Jacobi. Nor is it claimed that the construction gives a new Lie algebra unrelated to the cross product.

No new sphere-packing density bound, proof of the Kepler theorem, physical quantum model, gauge symmetry, conservation law, or computational advantage is established.

Author: Nguyen Kim Khanh
Project: Khanh Mathematics
Date: 29 October 2026
Series: Paper 10

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