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Born-Infeld Lagrangian using Cayley-Dickson algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We rewrite the Born-Infeld Lagrangian, which is originally given by the determinant of a 4×44 \times 4 matrix composed of the metric tensor gg and the field strength tensor FF, using the determinant of a (42n)×(42n)(4 \cdot 2^n) \times (4 \cdot 2^n) matrix H42nH_{4 \cdot 2^{n}}. If the elements of H42nH_{4 \cdot 2^{n}} are given by the linear combination of gg and FF, it is found, based on the representation matrix for the multiplication operator of the Cayley-Dickson algebras, that H42nH_{4 \cdot 2^{n}} is distinguished by a single parameter, where distinguished matrices are not similar matrices. We also give a reasonable condition to fix the paramete

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0306271,
  title  = {Born-Infeld Lagrangian using Cayley-Dickson algebras},
  author = {S. Kuwata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0306271},
  year   = {2009}
}
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