Timeline for How are the classifying space of $E_8$ and $K(\mathbb{Z},4)$ related?
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| Jan 17, 2011 at 5:30 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | I've cut out a bunch of references because they are not the original source of the ideas from the question and reflect a biased view of the topic. | |
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| Jan 17, 2011 at 4:51 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Thanks, Aaron. I removed the offending statement. Here's a link to the Witten paper you mention: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609122 | |
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| Jan 17, 2011 at 4:42 | comment | added | Aaron Bergman | The issue about loop groups (which have a complicated history) are really second order, and, as you say, not widely accepted. The use of E8 bundles in M-theory goes back to Horava and Witten, and the explicit statement about homotopy groups appears in hep-th/9609122 (I thought it was earlier, but I'm not finding it on a quick search). | |
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| Jan 17, 2011 at 3:55 | history | answered | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |