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Algebraic Dreams

Pierre Ramond

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0112261

Abstract

Nature's attraction to unique mathematical structures provides powerful hints for unraveling her mysteries. None is at present as intriguing as eleven-dimensional M-theory. The search for exceptional structures specific to eleven dimensions leads us to exceptional groups in the description of space-time. One specific connection, through the coset F4/SO(9), may provide a generalization of eleven-dimensional supergravity. Since this coset happens to be the projective space of the Exceptional Jordan Algebra, its charge space may be linked to the fundamental degrees of freedom underlying M-theory.

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