Nonstandard signature of spacetime, superstrings and the split composition algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00402262zbMATH Open0692.22005OpenAlexW1969922673WikidataQ54087088 ScholiaQ54087088MaRDI QIDQ583391FDOQ583391

Authors: R. Foot, G. C. Joshi 

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00402262

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zbMATH Keywords

octonionsquaternionsspace-timesdivision algebrasplit algebrasstring theoriessuperstring actionsupersymmetry transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Composition algebras (17A75) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)

Cites Work

• Quark structure and octonions
• A natural framework for the minimal supersymmetric gauge theories

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• The split algebras and noncompact Hopf maps
• A nonassociative quaternion scalar field theory
• Lie 3-algebra and super-affinization of split-octonions
• Negative branes, supergroups and the signature of spacetime

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