Octonions, trace dynamics and non-commutative geometry: a case for unification in spontaneous quantum gravity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16274v3
• Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:01:30 GMT
• Title: Octonions, trace dynamics and non-commutative geometry: a case for unification in spontaneous quantum gravity
• Authors: Tejinder P. Singh
• Abstract summary: We show that at energies below Planck scale, fermions have half-integer spin (in multiples of Planck's constant) and bosons have integral spin. We also show that this definition of spin agrees with the conventional understanding of spin in relativistic quantum mechanics. In the present paper we outline how in our work the Dixon algebra arises naturally, and could lead to a unification of gravity with the standard model.
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• Abstract: We have recently proposed a new matrix dynamics at the Planck scale, building on the theory of trace dynamics. This is a Lagrangian dynamics in which the matrix degrees of freedom are made from Grassmann numbers, and the Lagrangian is trace of a matrix polynomial. Matrices made from even grade elements of the Grassmann algebra are called bosonic, and those made from odd grade elements are called fermionic: together they describe an `aikyon'. In the present article we provide a basic definition of spin angular momentum in this matrix dynamics, and introduce a bosonic (fermionic) configuration variable conjugate to the spin of a boson (fermion). We then show that at energies below Planck scale, where the matrix dynamics reduces to quantum theory, fermions have half-integer spin (in multiples of Planck's constant), and bosons have integral spin. We also show that this definition of spin agrees with the conventional understanding of spin in relativistic quantum mechanics. Consequently, we obtain an elementary proof for the spin-statistics connection. We then motivate why an octonionic space is the natural space in which an aikyon evolves. The group of automorphisms in this space is the exceptional Lie group $G_2$ which has fourteen generators [could they stand for the twelve vector bosons and two degrees of freedom of the graviton? ]. The aikyon also resembles a closed string, and it has been suggested in the literature that 10-D string theory can be represented as a 2-D string in the 8-D octonionic space. From the work of Cohl Furey and others it is known that the Dixon algebra made from the four division algebras [real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions and octonions] can possibly describe the symmetries of the standard model. In the present paper we outline how in our work the Dixon algebra arises naturally, and could lead to a unification of gravity with the standard model.

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