Exotic matrix models: the Albert algebra and the spin factor

zbMATH Open1417.81153arXiv1808.02853MaRDI QIDQ4966552FDOQ4966552

Authors: Paul E. Gunnells 

Publication date: 26 June 2019

Abstract: The matrix models attached to real symmetric matrices and the complex/quaternionic Hermitian matrices have been studied by many authors. These models correspond to three of the simple formally real Jordan algebras over R. Such algebras were classified by Jordan, von Neumann, and Wigner in the 30s, and apart from these three there are two others: (i) the spin factor L_{1,n}, an algebra built on R^{n+1}, and (ii) the Albert algebra A of 3 by 3 Hermitian matrices over the octonions. In this paper we investigate the matrix models attached to these remaining cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02853

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zbMATH Keywords

octonionsspin factormatrix modelsAlbert algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33) Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Jordan structures associated with other structures (17C50)

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