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Symplectic vs pseudo-Euclidean space-time with extra dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is conjectured that the symplectic structure of space-time is superior to the metric one. Instead of the commonly adopted pseudo-orthogonal groups SO(1,d-1), d\ge4, the complex symplectic ones Sp(2l,C), l\ge1 are proposed as the local structure groups of the extended space-time. A discrete series of the metric space-times of the particular dimensionalities d=4l^2 and signatures, with l(2l-1) time and l(2l+1) spatial directions, defined over the set of the Hermitian second-rank spin-tensors is proposed as an alternative to the pseudo-Euclidean space-times with extra dimensions. The one-dimensional time-like direction remaining invariant under fixed boosts makes it possible the non-relativistic causality description despite the presence of extra times.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0105112,
  title  = {Symplectic vs pseudo-Euclidean space-time with extra dimensions},
  author = {Yu. F. Pirogov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0105112},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, LaTeX. Report presented at the XI-th Int. School "Particles and Cosmology", Baksan Valley, 18-24 April, 2001

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