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Geometry and Physics of Sp(3)/Sp(1)^3

General Physics 2019-01-01 v2

Abstract

The action of Sp(3)Sp(3) on a vector space V3H3V_3\in \mathbb H^3 is analyzed. The transitive action of the group is conveyed by the flag manifold (coset space) Sp(3)/Sp(1)3G/HSp(3)/Sp(1)^3\sim G/H, a Wallach space. The curvature two-forms are shown to mediate pair-wise interactions between the components of the H3\mathbb H^3 vector space. The root space of the flag manifold is shown to be isomorphic to that of SU(3)SU(3), suggesting similarities between the representations of the flag manifold and those of SU(3)SU(3). The passage from SU(3)SU(3) to Sp(3)Sp(3) and the interpretation given here encompasses the spin of the fermionic components of V3V_3. Composite fermions are representable as linear combinations of product states of the eigenvectors of G/HG/H.

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@article{arxiv.1804.10700,
  title  = {Geometry and Physics of Sp(3)/Sp(1)^3},
  author = {B. E. Eichinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10700},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This is a revision of a manuscript of the same title. References have been updated and a section on curvature operators was added