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Gauging octonion algebra

A. K. Waldron, G. C. Joshi

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9211123

Abstract

By consireding representation theory for non-associative algebras we construct the fundamental and adjoint representations of the octonion algebra. We then show how these representations by associative matrices allow a consistent octonionic gauge theory to be realised. We find that non-associativity implies the existence of new terms in the transformation laws of fields and the kinetic term of an octonionic Lagrangian.

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