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Conformal and Quasiconformal Realizations of Exceptional Lie Groups
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 7 Aug 2000 · 32 references
Pith's verdict: A genuinely useful explicit-formulas paper: the 57-dim E8(8) realization and the 27-dim E7(7) realization are worth having, with acknowledged verification gaps and one loose phrasing about fixed-base-point light cones.
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An explicit 57-dimensional nonlinear realization of E8(8) is constructed whose quartic norm form vanishes on an invariant light cone, with the 27-dimensional E7(7) conformal case given in full.
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Core claim
There exists a nonlinear realization of E8(8) on R^57, with coordinates (X^ij, X_ij, x), such that the quartic form N4 = I4(X) - x^2, evaluated on the nonlinear difference delta(X,Y) = (X^ij - Y^ij, X_ij - Y_ij; x - y + <X,Y>), is preserved up to an overall factor under the full group. The light cone N4(delta(X,Y)) = 0 is therefore invariant under E8(8), which plays the role of a generalized conformal group. The paper exhibits all generator variations explicitly in eqs. (19)-(24).
Load-bearing premise
The closure of the full E8(8) algebra under the nonlinear variations (19)-(24) is asserted, not exhibited: 'we have checked by explicit computation that the above variations do close into the full E8(8) algebra in the basis given in the previous section. This is the crucial consistency check' (section 2.2, immediately after eq. (24)). No computation, intermediate step, or computer-algebra script is provided. If the closure fails, the central claim collapses, because the variations would not form a representation of E8(8).
Original 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.
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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.
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| s0 | 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. | contribution 0.82 | 0.96 | 0.85 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | 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. | result 0.48 | 0.84 | 0.19 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Possible applications of our results to supergravity and M-Theory are briefly mentioned. | future work 0.57 | 0.46 | 0.03 | hedged possibility 0.90 |
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