Construction and Characterization of Representations of SU(7) for GUT Model Builders

The natural extension to the SU(5) Georgi-Glashow grand unification model is to enlarge the gauge symmetry group. In this work, the SU(7) symmetry group is examined. The Cartan subalgebra is determined along with their commutation relations. The associated roots and weights of the SU(7) algebra are derived and discussed. The raising and lowering operators are explicitly constructed and presented. Higher dimensional representations are developed by graphical as well as tensorial methods. Applications of the SU(7) Lie group to supersymmetric grand unification as well as applications are discussed.

Lorentz invariance of basis tensor gauge theory

Basis tensor gauge theory (BTGT) is a vierbein analog reformulation of ordinary gauge theories in which the vierbein field describes the Wilson line. After a brief review of the BTGT, we clarify the Lorentz group representation properties associated with the variables used for its quantization. In particular, we show that starting from an SO(1,3) representation satisfying the Lorentz-invariant U(1,3) matrix constraints, BTGT introduces a Lorentz frame choice to pick the Abelian group manifold generated by the Cartan subalgebra of U(1,3) for the convenience of quantization even though the theory is frame independent. This freedom to choose a frame can be viewed as an additional symmetry of BTGT that was not emphasized before. We then show how an [Formula: see text] permutation symmetry and a parity symmetry of frame fields natural in BTGT can be used to construct renormalizable gauge theories that introduce frame-dependent fields but remain frame independent perturbatively without any explicit reference to the usual gauge field.

Remarks on the confinement in the G(2) gauge theory using the thick center vortex model

The confinement problem is studied using the thick center vortex model. It is shown that the [Formula: see text] Cartan subalgebra of the decomposed [Formula: see text] gauge theory can play an important role in the confinement. The Casimir eigenvalues and ratios of the [Formula: see text] representations are obtained using its decomposition to the [Formula: see text] subgroups. This leads to the conjecture that the [Formula: see text] subgroups also can explain the [Formula: see text] properties of the confinement. The thick center vortex model for the [Formula: see text] subgroups of the [Formula: see text] gauge theory is applied without the domain modification. Instead, the presence of two [Formula: see text] vortices with opposite fluxes due to the possibility of decomposition of the [Formula: see text] Cartan subalgebra to the [Formula: see text] groups can explain the properties of the confinement of the [Formula: see text] group both at intermediate and asymptotic distances which is studied here.

Further results on q-Lie groups, q-Lie algebras and q-homogeneous spaces

We introduce most of the concepts for q-Lie algebras in a way independent of the base field K. Again it turns out that we can keep the same Lie algebra with a small modification. We use very similar definitions for all quantities, which means that the proofs are similar. In particular, the quantities solvable, nilpotent, semisimple q-Lie algebra, Weyl group and Weyl chamber are identical with the ordinary case q = 1. The computations of sample q-roots for certain well-known q-Lie groups contain an extra q-addition, and consequently, for most of the quantities which are q-deformed, we add a prefix q in the respective name. Important examples are the q-Cartan subalgebra and the q-Cartan Killing form. We introduce the concept q-homogeneous spaces in a formal way exemplified by the examples S U q ( 1 , 1 ) S O q ( 2 ) {{S{U_q}\left( {1,1} \right)} \over {S{O_q}\left( 2 \right)}} and S O q ( 3 ) S O q ( 2 ) {{S{O_q}\left( 3 \right)} \over {S{O_q}\left( 2 \right)}} with corresponding q-Lie groups and q-geodesics. By introducing a q-deformed semidirect product, we can define exact sequences of q-Lie groups and some other interesting q-homogeneous spaces. We give an example of the corresponding q-Iwasawa decomposition for SLq(2).

On a chain of reproducing kernel Cartan subalgebras

Let 𝔤 be a semisimple Lie algebra, j a Cartan subalgebra of 𝔤, j*, the dual of j, jv the bidual of j and B(., .) the restriction to j of the Killing form of 𝔤. In this work, we will construct a chain of reproducing kernel Cartan subalgebras ordered by inclusion.

Hamming spaces and locally matrix algebras

We study an abstract class of Hamming spaces (known also as measure algebras) that generalizes standard Hamming spaces [Formula: see text]. We classify countable locally standard Hamming spaces and show that each of them can be realized as the Boolean algebra of idempotents of a Cartan subalgebra of a locally matrix algebra.

Hereditary automorphic Lie algebras

We show that automorphic Lie algebras which contain a Cartan subalgebra with a constant-spectrum, called hereditary, are completely described by 2-cocycles on a classical root system taking only two different values. This observation suggests a novel approach to their classification. By determining the values of the cocycles on opposite roots, we obtain the Killing form and the abelianization of the automorphic Lie algebra. The results are obtained by studying equivariant vectors on the projective line. As a byproduct, we describe a method to reduce the computation of the infinite-dimensional space of said equivariant vectors to a finite-dimensional linear computation and the determination of the ring of automorphic functions on the projective line.