The Jordan pair content of the magic square and the geometry of the scalars in \(N=2\) supergravity
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The Jordan pair content of the magic square and the geometry of the scalars in \(N=2\) supergravity
zbMATH Open document ID: 0577.17013
DOI: 10.1007/BF00402838
author: L. C. Biedenharn
author: P. Truini
author: Gennaro Olivieri
published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: It is shown that three columns of the Freudenthal-Tits magic square (which is a table of 16 Lie algebras obtained by applying the well known Tits construction to the Jordan algebras of the Hermitian \(3\times 3\) matrices over \({\mathbb{R}}\), \({\mathbb{C}}\), \({\mathbb{H}}\), \({\mathbb{O}}\), the reals, complexes, quaternions, and octonions, respectively) can be characterized as algebras of the automorphism groups of, respectively, trace Jordan algebras (first row), Jordan pairs (second row), ternary algebras (third row). Of these results, only the one concerning the second row of the magic square is new, but putting them together suggests that an algebraic characterization of the fourth row is yet to be found. The approach is later on compared with that of Gürsey, and it is shown that the Hermitian symmetric spaces parametrized by the scalars of \(N=2\), \(d=4\) supergravity theories are related either to Jordan pairs or to geometries of projective dimension two, whose elements belong to a Jordan pair.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 17C40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83E50
zbMATH DE Number: 3922921
zbMATH Keywords: Freudenthal-Tits magic square
zbMATH Keywords: Jordan pairs
zbMATH Keywords: Hermitian symmetric spaces
zbMATH Keywords: supergravity
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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