Conformal and quasiconformal realizations of exceptional Lie groups (Q5953640)

The authors present a novel construction involving the maximally extended Lie group \(E_{8(8)}\). They show that there exists a quasiconformal nonlinear realisation of \(E_{8(8)}\) on a space of 57 dimensions, where the 57-th coordinate can be interpreted as the entropy and the remaining 56 coordinates as the electric and magnetic charges. They might alternatively be interpreted as a generalized Heisenberg group, in which case the 57-th component would play the role of a variable parameter \(\hbar\). In addition, previous conformal realizations of the lower rank exceptional groups are recovered.