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Space-times over normed division algebras, revisited (1912.05414v1)

Published 11 Dec 2019 in hep-th, gr-qc, math-ph, and math.MP

Abstract: Normed division and Clifford algebras have been extensively used in the past as a mathematical framework to accommodate the structures of the standard model and grand unified theories. Less discussed has been the question of why such algebraic structures appear in Nature. One possibility could be an intrinsic complex, quaternionic or octonionic nature of the spacetime manifold. Then, an obvious question is why spacetime appears nevertheless to be simply parametrized by the real numbers. How the real slices of an higher dimensional spacetime manifold might be almost independent from each other is discussed here. This comes about as a result of the different nature of the representations of the real kinematical groups and those of the extended spaces. Some of the internal symmetry transformations might however appear as representations on homogeneous spaces of the extended group transformations that cannot be implemented on the elementary states.

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