Exceptional quantum geometry and particle physics

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.04.018zbMATH Open1349.81179arXiv1604.01247OpenAlexW2336907355MaRDI QIDQ341869FDOQ341869

Michel Dubois-Violette

Publication date: 17 November 2016

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

Abstract: Based on an interpretation of the quark-lepton symmetry in terms of the unimodularity of the color group $SU(3)$ and on the existence of 3 generations, we develop an argumentation suggesting that the "finite quantum space" corresponding to the exceptional real Jordan algebra of dimension 27 (the Euclidean Albert algebra) is relevant for the description of internal spaces in the theory of particles. In particular, the triality which corresponds to the 3 off-diagonal octonionic elements of the exceptional algebra is associated to the 3 generations of the Standard Model while the representation of the octonions as a complex 4-dimensional space $mathbbCoplusmathbb{C}^3$ is associated to the quark-lepton symmetry, (one complex for the lepton and 3 for the corresponding quark). More generally it is is suggested that the replacement of the algebra of real functions on spacetime by the algebra of functions on spacetime with values in a finite-dimensional Euclidean Jordan algebra which plays the role of "the algebra of real functions" on the corresponding almost classical quantum spacetime is relevant in particle physics. This leads us to study the theory of Jordan modules and to develop the differential calculus over Jordan algebras, (i.e. to introduce the appropriate notion of differential forms). We formulate the corresponding definition of connections on Jordan modules.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01247

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Exceptional Jordan structures (17C40)

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