Oktaven, Ausnahmegruppen und Oktavengeometrie (Q1063231): Difference between revisions

In this article, which is the (first) publication of Freudenthal's basic lecture notes (written and mimeographed in 1951), the fundamental representations of the real Lie groups \(G_ 2\), \(F_ 4\), and \(E_ 6\) of degrees 7, 26, and 27, respectively, are described from scratch. This is established by introducing first the 8-dimensional real Cayley division algebra and H and \(G_ 2\) as its automorphism group, next the 27-dimensional Jordanalgebra J of Hermitian \(3\times 3\) matrices over H and \(F_ 4\) as its automorphism group, and finally \(E_ 6\) as the group of linear transformations of J preserving a cubic form associated with the algebra structure on J. The problems stated at the end of the article have mostly been solved, see the introductory note by \textit{F. D. Veldkamp} in ibid. 19, 3-5 (1985).