The Geometry of the Octonions

DOI10.1142/8456zbMATH Open1333.17004arXiv0911.2253OpenAlexW4230595451MaRDI QIDQ3144902FDOQ3144902

Authors: Tevian Dray, Corinne A. Manogue 

Publication date: 12 December 2012

Abstract: In 1934, Jordan et al. gave a necessary algebraic condition, the Jordan identity, for a sensible theory of quantum mechanics. All but one of the algebras that satisfy this condition can be described by Hermitian matrices over the complexes or quaternions. The remaining, exceptional Jordan algebra can be described by 3x3 Hermitian matrices over the octonions. We first review properties of the octonions and the exceptional Jordan algebra, including our previous work on the octonionic Jordan eigenvalue problem. We then examine a particular real, noncompact form of the Lie group E6, which preserves determinants in the exceptional Jordan algebra. Finally, we describe a possible symmetry-breaking scenario within E6: first choose one of the octonionic directions to be special, then choose one of the 2x2 submatrices inside the 3x3 matrices to be special. Making only these two choices, we are able to describe many properties of leptons in a natural way. We further speculate on the ways in which quarks might be similarly encoded.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2253

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zbMATH Keywords

octonionsquaternionsLie groupCayley-Dickson processmagic squareHopf bundleexceptional group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to nonassociative rings and algebras (17-01) Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Composition algebras (17A75) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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