Conformal and quasiconformal realizations of exceptional Lie groups

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DOI10.1007/PL00005574zbMATH Open0992.22016arXivhep-th/0008063OpenAlexW3124561546WikidataQ115390553 ScholiaQ115390553MaRDI QIDQ5953640FDOQ5953640


Authors: M. Günaydin, K. Koepsell, Hermann Nicolai Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 January 2002

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

Abstract: We present a nonlinear realization of E_8 on a space of 57 dimensions, which is quasiconformal in the sense that it leaves invariant a suitably defined ``light cone in 57 dimensions. This realization, which is related to the Freudenthal triple system associated with the unique exceptional Jordan algebra over the split octonions, contains previous conformal realizations of the lower rank exceptional Lie groups on generalized space times, and in particular a conformal realization of E_7 on a 27 dimensional vector space which we exhibit explicitly. Possible applications of our results to supergravity and M-Theory are briefly mentioned.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008063




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