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Speculations concerning a fermionic substructure of space-time

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Lettere al Nuovo Cimento (1971-1985)

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The possibility of obtaining the co-ordinates of space-time as « composites » of more fundamental fermionic co-ordinates is explored. It is suggested that the required algebraic structure may be derived from an action whose equations of motion define suitable constraints. The program is incomplete and very speculative. Some of the problems that remain to be solved are indicated.

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  1. California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, California

    J. H. Schwarz & P. van Nieuwenhuizen

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Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC-03-79ER0068 and by the Fleischmann Foundation.

On leave from S.U. Now York at Stony Brook.

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Schwarz, J.H., van Nieuwenhuizen, P. Speculations concerning a fermionic substructure of space-time. Lett. Nuovo Cimento 34, 21–25 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02817145

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