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The Necessity of the Information Axiom and the Octonions B: Categorical Realization Theorem– From the Fibonacci and SU(2)3 Categories to a Tensor Construction of the Octonion Algebra

Authors: zhou, changzheng; zhou, ziqing;

The Necessity of the Information Axiom and the Octonions B: Categorical Realization Theorem– From the Fibonacci and SU(2)3 Categories to a Tensor Construction of the Octonion Algebra

Abstract

This paper constructs a strict unitary modular tensor category C = F ⊠ T ,where F is the Fibonacci category and T is the SU(2)3 category. The simpleobjects of C number four, with quantum dimensions 1,φ,√3,φ√3, where φ is thegolden ratio. By explicitly computing the fusion rules, F-matrices, R-matrices, Smatrix, and topological spins, we verify that C satisfies all the axioms of a unitarymodular tensor category, with central charge c = 8. Furthermore, we prove thatthe Drinfeld center Z(C) is isomorphic to the representation category Rep(O) ofthe octonion algebra O, and thereby establish a fully faithful embedding from Cinto Rep(O). This embedding maps the four simple objects of C to the trivialrepresentation and the representations corresponding to the three points on a linein the Fano plane, thus encoding the entire octonion multiplication table. Thisconstruction traces the emergence of the octonion algebra back to the combinationof the two most fundamental non-abelian anyon categories, providing a rigorouscategorical foundation for understanding the appearance of non-associative algebrasin quantum field theory, and filling the theoretical gap between modular tensorcategories and exceptional Lie algebras.

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