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Meson algebras are involved in the wave equation of meson particles in the same way as Clifford algebras are involved in the Dirac wave equation of electrons. Here we improve and generalize the information already obtained about their structure and their representations, when the symmetric bilinear form under consideration is nondegenerate. We emphasize their parity grading. We calculate the center of these meson algebras, and the center of their even subalgebra. Finally we show that every nondegenerate meson algebra over a field contains a group isomorphic to the group of automorphisms of the symmetric bilinear form.
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Helmstetter, J., Micali, A. The Graded Structure of Nondegenerate Meson Algebras. AACA 18, 197–236 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-008-0073-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-008-0073-z