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10 - Concluding remark

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2009

Susumo Okubo
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University of Rochester, New York
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In this short treatise, we have given some ideas for applying non-associative algebras to physical problems. However, we have had to omit many other topics related to our subject in order to make our treatment as self-contained as possible. We have not mentioned the important technical method of the Peirce decomposition, which is crucial for determining the structures of many non-associative algebras. Nor have we presented the subject of the Tit construction, or the Freudenthal–Kantor constructions of exceptional Lie algebras. Similarly, the representation theory of Jordan algebra might have been addressed. Regarding physics, we have not touched on the matter of quaternionic and octonionic Hilbert spaces, and their possible relevances to physics. Nor has the subject of non-associative generalizations of the so-called propositional calculus and related subjects in quantum mechanics been given any attention. The latter problems have been discussed by Günaydin and by Truini and Biedenharn, who utilized the Jordan triple system and the Jordan-pair systems. Moreover, nothing has been said on the possible relevance of non-associative algebras for second quantizations of closed string models, in view of the so-called non-associative anomaly. Also, the triangle anomaly in quantum field theory may lead to a violation of the Jacobi identity for the algebra of currents, leading to non-associative physics. A non-associative algebra also occurs in some integrable classical mechanics problem. Further, a non-associative algebra has been utilized for construction of the B-type vertex operator in the string model.

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  • Concluding remark
  • Susumo Okubo, University of Rochester, New York
  • Book: Introduction to Octonion and Other Non-Associative Algebras in Physics
  • Online publication: 15 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511524479.011
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  • Susumo Okubo, University of Rochester, New York
  • Book: Introduction to Octonion and Other Non-Associative Algebras in Physics
  • Online publication: 15 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511524479.011
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  • Concluding remark
  • Susumo Okubo, University of Rochester, New York
  • Book: Introduction to Octonion and Other Non-Associative Algebras in Physics
  • Online publication: 15 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511524479.011
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