Nonstandard signature of spacetime, superstrings and the split composition algebras

DOI10.1007/BF00402262MaRDI QIDQ583391zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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)

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