An octonionic construction of E₈ and the Lie algebra magic square

DOI10.2140/IIG.2023.20.611MaRDI QIDQ6091483zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert A. Wilson, Tevian Dray, Corinne A. Manogue

Publication date 24 November 2023

Published in Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04996

zbMATH Keywords

exceptional Lie algebrasFreudenthal-Tits magic squareoctonions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exceptional groups (20G41)

Abstract: We give a new construction of the Lie algebra of type $E_8$, in terms of $3imes3$ matrices, such that the Lie bracket has a natural description as the matrix commutator. This leads to a new interpretation of the Freudenthal-Tits magic square of Lie algebras, acting on themselves by commutation.

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