Models of the universe based on Jordan algebras

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115044MaRDI QIDQ2230244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Ambjørn, Yoshiyuki Watabiki

Publication date 17 September 2021

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13527

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Noncommutative Jordan algebras (17A15) Structure theory for Jordan algebras (17C10) Quaternionic operator theory (47S05) Operator theory over fields other than (mathbb{R}), (mathbb{C}) or the quaternions; non-Archimedean operator theory (47S10) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We propose a model for the universe based on Jordan algebras. The action consists of cubic terms with coefficients being the structure constants of a Jordan algebra. Coupling constants only enter the theory via symmetry breaking which also selects a physical vacuum. "Before" the symmetry breaking the universe is in a pre-geometric state where it makes no sense to talk about space or time, but time comes into existence with the symmetry breaking together with a Hamiltonian which can create space from "nothing" and in some cases can propagate the space to macroscopic size in a finite time. There exists symmetry breaking which results in macroscopic spacetime dimensions 3, 4, 6 and 10, based on the Jordan algebras of Hermitian 3x3 matrices with real, complex, quarternion and octonion entries,respectively.

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