I was reading Ch. 21 and I had some thoughts that may or may not be worth anything but i wanted to mention them to you.

1. the fact that all Execptional Lie Groups can be obtained from one equation is very interesting. Is there some connection between this equation and the Octonian intergers,and the Octonion Rings? See Conway and Smith"On Quaterions and Octonions"

2.The auotmorphism of the Octonians is G2. Therefore since the Octonions generate the Exceptional Lie Groups shouldn't in principal the evauluation of buble diagrams in terms of these Execptional groups be reduciable to the evaulation in terms of G2 which you have already done?

3.Have you seen Dixon's generation of the Magic Square by tensor products of the division algebras? See Geoffrey M. Dixon " Division Algebras: Octonions, Quaternions, Complex Numbers and the Algebraic Design of Physics" Kluwer Academic Publishers. Note his derivation of the division algebrs from the Sayley-Dickson doubling prescription and independently from Galois sequences. Can one derive a asingle paramatised relation among the Lie groups from these procedures? I thing it should be possable. Would one get the same relation from the Galois procedure?

It seems like that in order to do mathematical physics that can yeild predictions about physical objects we need to use an <alge><bra> (pardon the pun) which permits division and therefore we end up with the Lie Groups.

Groups and 4 Execptional Lie Groups(F4,E6,E7, E8) with G2 being the underlying symetrey of these groups since it contains the basis from which all others are built ( one open and one dark root)(seeGeorgi "Lie Algebras in Particle Physics" 2nd Ed.Section 20.1).

Prehaps this can be connected to the underlying topology. SeeFrankel " The Geometry of Physics" Ch.4, 15 and 21.4.

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