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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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University of California Lie Theory Workshop
Bertram Kostant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On some of the mathematics in Garrett Lisi's E(8) Theory of Everything
Abstract:
A physicist, Garrett Lisi, has published a highly controversal, but fascinating, paper purporting to go beyond the standard model in that it unifies all 4 forces of nature by using as gauge group the exceptional Lie group $E(8)$. My talk, strictly mathematical, will be about an elaboration of the mathematics of $E(8)$ which Lisi relies on to construct his theory.
Host: Efim Zelmanov
February 17, 2008
1:00 PM
NSB 1205
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