{
  "id": "1010.2979",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-10-14T16:59:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-10-15T07:45:57.000Z",
  "title": "Octonions",
  "authors": [
    "Jonathan Hackett",
    "Louis H. Kauffman"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 11 figures",
  "categories": [
    "math-ph",
    "hep-th",
    "math.MP"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-10-15T07:45:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quaternions",
      "dirac string trick",
      "topological model"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 873021,
      "adsabs": "2010arXiv1010.2979H"
    }
  }
}