Geometry and the Exceptional Jordan Algebra
john (baez@math.ucr.edu)
Geometry and the Exceptional Jordan Algebra
Posted by John Baez
I’m giving a talk online tomorrow at the 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in the Special Session on Non-Associative Rings and Algebras. The organizers are Layla Sorkatti and Kenneth Price. I doubt the talk will be recorded, but you can see my slides.
Abstract. Dubois-Violette and Todorov noticed that the gauge group of theStandard Model of particle physics is the intersection of two...