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Geometric construction of the Quantum Hall 3 Effect in all even dimensions 0 0 2 Guowu Meng g Department of Mathematics u Hong Kong University of Science and Technology A Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong 7 Email: mameng@ust.hk 2 February 2, 2008 4 v 1 5 Abstract 3 6 The Quantum Hall Effects in all even dimensions are uniformly con- 0 structed. Contrary to some recent accounts in the literature, the existence 3 of Quantum Hall Effects does not crucially depend on the existence of di- 0 vision algebras. For QHE on flat space of even dimensions, both the / Hamiltonians and the ground state wave-functions for a single particle t a are explicitly described. This explicit description immediately tells us m that QHE on a higher even dimensional flat space shares the common - features such as incompressibility with QHE on plane. d n o 1 Introduction c : v Recently there is a flurry on a generalization of the Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) i to four dimensional flat space [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 7, 9, 10], inspired by a paper [11] X by Zhang and Hu. In view of its significance to the condensed matter physics r a a