The Geometry of Self-dual 2-forms

Details The Geometry of Self-dual 2-forms The Geometry of Self-dual 2-forms

1996-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605060v1

J.Math.Phys. 38 (1997) 4804-4814

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Latex, 15 pages

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We show that self-dual 2-forms in 2n dimensional spaces determine a $n^2-n+1$ dimensional manifold ${\cal S}_{2n}$ and the dimension of the maximal linear subspaces of ${\cal S}_{2n}$ is equal to the (Radon-Hurwitz) number of linearly independent vector fields on the sphere $S^{2n-1}$. We provide a direct proof that for $n$ odd ${\cal S}_{2n}$ has only one-dimensional linear submanifolds. We exhibit $2^c-1$ dimensional subspaces in dimensions which are multiples of $2^c$, for $c=1,2,3$. In particular, we demonstrate that the seven dimensional linear subspaces of ${\cal S}_{8}$ also include among many other interesting classes of self-dual 2-forms, the self-dual 2-forms of Corrigan, Devchand, Fairlie and Nuyts and a representation of ${\cal C}l_7$ given by octonionic multiplication. We discuss the relation of the linear subspaces with the representations of Clifford algebras.

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