Uniqueness of SU(5) and SO(10) grand unified theories
- 15 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 23 (12) , 3058-3070
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.23.3058
Abstract
We will prove that SU(5) and SO(10) grand unified theories are almost uniquely chosen under a few reasonable assumptions. The main ansatz is that there exist only left-handed particles in an SU(2) doublet and their antiparticles in an SU(2) singlet. For the case of a single-multiplet unification, SO(10) is unique, using the facts that the charge of the quark is not neutral and the theory should be anomaly free. For the case of two-multiplet unification, SU(5) is unique among (). The color group is effectively determined as the standard SU(3) with triplets of colored quarks. Quark charges must be the standard and . No unifying simple group exists for under the assumptions above. For the case of SU(5), the cancellation of the triangle anomaly emerges as a consequence rather than a hypothesis.
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