2010/10/14 by Hackett, Jonathan, Kauffman, Louis H.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1010.2979
In this paper we review the topological model for the quaternions based upon the Dirac string trick. We then extend this model, to create a model for the octonions - the non-associative generalization of the quaternions.