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Selected writings

On generalizations of exceptional structures, including E8, octonions and the exceptional Jordan algebra:

• Piero Truini, Michael Rios, Alessio Marrani, The Magic Star of Exceptional Periodicity, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1194 (2019) 012106 [arXiv:1711.07881, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1194/1/012106]

On D=14 supersymmetry:

• Michael Rios, Alessio Marrani, David Chester, The Geometry of Exceptional Super Yang-Mills Theories, Phys. Rev. D 99, 046004 (2019) (arXiv:1811.06101)

On 12-dimensional supergravity, D=14 supersymmetry et al. and further indications that M-theory in 10+1 dimensions may be understood as the KK-compactification on Cayley-plane fibers of some kind of bosonic M-theory in 26+1 dimensions:

• Michael Rios, Alessio Marrani, David Chester, The Geometry of Exceptional Super Yang-Mills Theories, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 046004 [arXiv:1811.06101, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.046004]

• Michael Rios, Alessio Marrani, David Chester, Exceptional Super Yang-Mills in $D=27+3$ and Worldvolume M-Theory, Phys. Lett. B 808 (2020) 135674 [arXiv:1906.10709, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135674]

Relation to the Monster group, Moonshine and the Monster vertex operator algebra:

• Alessio Marrani, Michael Rios, David Chester, Monstrous M-theory, Symmetry 15 2 (2023) 490; [doi:10.3390/sym15020490, arXiv:2008.06742]

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