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Particle Identifications from Symmetries of Braided Ribbon Network Invariants

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-04-02 v1

Abstract

We develop the idea that the particles of the standard model may arise from excitations of quantum geometry. A previously proposed topological model of preons is developed so that it incorporates an unbounded number of generations. A condition is also found on quantum gravity dynamics necessary for the interactions of the standard model to emerge.

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@article{arxiv.0804.0037,
  title  = {Particle Identifications from Symmetries of Braided Ribbon Network Invariants},
  author = {Sundance Bilson-Thompson and Jonathan Hackett and Lou Kauffman and Lee Smolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0037},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures