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Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics

Group Theory 2021-07-27 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

There is a unique finite group that lies inside the 2-dimensional unitary group but not in the special unitary group, and maps by the symmetric square to an irreducible subgroup of the 3-dimensional real special orthogonal group. In an earlier paper I showed how the representation theory of this group over the real numbers gives rise to much of the structure of the standard model of particle physics, but with a number of added twists. In this theory the group is quantised, but the representations are not. In this paper I consider how a quantisation of the representations might lead to a more fundamental theory.

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@article{arxiv.2106.00550,
  title  = {Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics},
  author = {Robert A. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00550},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages. v2: 30 pages. Added sections giving details of integral and 3-modular versions of the spinors. Re-organised into sections and subsections for clarity. v3: added a section on experimental evidence. v4: improved notation, added section on possible application to the cosmological lithium problem. v5: added more potential applications. 41 pages

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