On the quest for unification - simplicity and antisimplicity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
The road towards unification of elementary interactions is thought to start on the solid ground of a universal local gauge principle. I discuss the different types of bosonic gauge symmetries in gravitational and nongravitational (standard model) interactions and their extensions both fermionic, bosonic and with respect to space-time dimensions. The apparently paradoxical size and nature of the cosmological constant is sketched, which at first sight does not readily yield a clue as to the envelopping symmetry structure of a unified theory. Nevertheless a tentative outlook is given encouraging to proceed on this road.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102249,
title = {On the quest for unification - simplicity and antisimplicity},
author = {Peter Minkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102249},
year = {2008}
}
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29 pages, 4 figures