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Unified model beyond grand unification

Juven Wang
Phys. Rev. D 103, 105024 – Published 27 May 2021

Abstract

Strong, electromagnetic, and weak forces were unified in the Standard Model with spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking. These forces were further conjectured to be unified in a simple Lie group gauge interaction in the grand unification. In this work, we propose a theory beyond the Standard Model and grand unification by adding new gapped topological phase sectors consistent with the nonperturbative global anomaly cancellation and cobordism constraints (especially from the baryon minus lepton number BL, the electroweak hypercharge Y, and the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly). Gapped topological phase sectors are constructed via symmetry extension, whose low energy contains unitary Lorentz invariant topological quantum field theories (TQFTs): either (3+1)D noninvertible TQFT (long-range entangled gapped phase), or (4+1)D invertible or noninvertible TQFT (short-range or long-range entangled gapped phase). Alternatively, there could also be right-handed neutrinos, or gapless unparticle conformal field theories, or their combinations to altogether cancel the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly. We propose that a new high-energy physics frontier beyond the conventional 0D particle physics relies on the new topological force and topological matter including gapped extended objects (gapped 1D line and 2D surface operators or defects, etc., whose open ends carry deconfined fractionalized particle or anyonic string excitations). Physical characterizations of these gapped extended objects require the mathematical theories of cohomology, cobordism, or category. Although weaker than the weak force, topological force is infinite-range or long-range that does not decay in the distance, and mediates between the linked world volume trajectories via fractional or categorical statistical interactions.

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  • Received 1 January 2021
  • Accepted 12 February 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.105024

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

Published by the American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Interdisciplinary PhysicsCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied PhysicsParticles & FieldsGeneral Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Juven Wang*

  • Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  • *jw@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu

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Vol. 103, Iss. 10 — 15 May 2021

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