Hermitian \((\varepsilon, \delta)\)-Freudenthal-Kantor triple systems and certain applications of \(*\)-generalized Jordan triple systems to field theory (Q2337691)

Summary: We define Hermitian \((\varepsilon, \delta)\)-Freudenthal-Kantor triple systems and prove a structure theorem. We also give some examples of triple systems that are generalizations of the \(u(N) \oplus u(M)\) and \(s p(2 N) \oplus u(1)\) Hermitian 3-algebras. We apply a \(*\)-generalized Jordan triple system to a field theory and obtain a Chern-Simons gauge theory. We find that the novel Higgs mechanism works, where the Chern-Simons gauge theory reduces to a Yang-Mills theory in a certain limit.