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exceptional spinors and division algebras -- table
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exceptional spinors and real normed division algebras
Lorentzian spacetime dimension | spin group | normed division algebra | brane scan entry |
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| | the real numbers | super 1-brane in 3d |
| | the complex numbers | super 2-brane in 4d |
| SL(2,H) | the quaternions | little string |
| Spin(9,1) “SL(2,O)” | the octonions | heterotic/type II string |
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