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Fusion rules from the Norton inequality

Alonso Castillo-Ramirez
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Abstract

The Norton inequality is one of the fundamental axioms in the theory of Majorana and axial algebras, yet its precise structural consequences have remained only partially understood. In this paper, we show that the Norton inequality alone forces the $0$- and $1$-eigenspace fusion rules for arbitrary idempotents in a commutative real algebra $A$ equipped with a Frobenius form. More precisely, if the Frobenius form is nondegenerate (as in Majorana algebras), we prove that the eigenspaces $A_0(e)$ and $A_1(e)$ of an arbitrary idempotent $e \in A$ are subalgebras and annihilate one another: \[ A_0(e)A_1(e)=\{0\}, \] while in the degenerate case the corresponding inclusions hold modulo the radical of the Frobenius form. This answers a question of T. M. Mudziiri Shumba and S. Shpectorov concerning the closure of the $0$-eigenspace $A_0(e)$.

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Alonso Castillo-Ramirez. 2026-08-07. Fusion rules from the Norton inequality. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03237

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