Matryoshka of Special Democratic Forms

Details Matryoshka of Special Democratic Forms Matryoshka of Special Democratic Forms

2008-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3012v1

Commun.Math.Phys.293:545-562,2010

Physics

Mathematical Physics

25 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-009-0939-5

Special p-forms are forms which have components \phi_{\mu_1...\mu_p} equal to +1,-1 or 0 in some orthonormal basis. A p-form \phi\in \Lambda^p R^d is called democratic if the set of nonzero components {\phi_{\mu_1...\mu_p}} is symmetric under the transitive action of a subgroup of O(d,Z) on the indices {1,...,d}. Knowledge of these symmetry groups allows us to define mappings of special democratic p-forms in d dimensions to special democratic P-forms in D dimensions for successively higher P \geq p and D \geq d. In particular, we display a remarkable nested stucture of special forms including a U(3)-invariant 2-form in six dimensions, a G_2-invariant 3-form in seven dimensions, a Spin(7)-invariant 4-form in eight dimensions and a special democratic 6-form \Omega in ten dimensions. The latter has the remarkable property that its contraction with one of five distinct bivectors, yields, in the orthogonal eight dimensions, the Spin(7)-invariant 4-form. We discuss various properties of this ten dimensional form.

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