Nonassociativity, Malcev algebras and string theory

DOI10.1002/PROP.201300010zbMATH Open1338.81323arXiv1304.0410OpenAlexW1988676040MaRDI QIDQ2812976FDOQ2812976

Authors: Djordje Minic, M. Günaydin 

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Nonassociative structures have appeared in the study of D-branes in curved backgrounds. In recent work, string theory backgrounds involving three-form fluxes, where such structures show up, have been studied in more detail. We point out that under certain assumptions these nonassociative structures coincide with nonassociative Malcev algebras which had appeared in the quantum mechanics of systems with non-vanishing three-cocycles, such as a point particle moving in the field of a magnetic charge. We generalize the corresponding Malcev algebras to include electric as well as magnetic charges. These structures find their classical counterpart in the theory of Poisson-Malcev algebras and their generalizations. We also study their connection to Stueckelberg's generalized Poisson brackets that do not obey the Jacobi identity and point out that nonassociative string theory with a fundamental length corresponds to a realization of his goal to find a non-linear extension of quantum mechanics with a fundamental length. Similar nonassociative structures are also known to appear in the cubic formulation of closed string field theory in terms of open string fields, leading us to conjecture a natural string-field theoretic generalization of the AdS/CFT-like (holographic) duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0410

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson algebras (17B63) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Noncommutative Jordan algebras (17A15)

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