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Hypercharge Quantisation and Fermat's Last Theorem
by Nakarin Lohitsiri, David Tong
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| Authors (as Contributors): | Nakarin Lohitsiri · David Tong |
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| Arxiv Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00514v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2020-01-22 |
| Date submitted: | 2020-01-16 01:00 |
| Submitted by: | Tong, David |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
What values of the Standard Model hypercharges result in a mathematically consistent quantum field theory? We show that the constraints imposed by the lack of gauge anomalies can be recast as the equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3. If hypercharge is quantised, then x, y and z must be integers. The trivial (and only) solutions, with x=0 or y=0, reproduce the hypercharge assignments seen in Nature. This argument does not rely on the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly, which is automatically vanishing if hypercharge is quantised and the gauge anomalies vanish.
Published as SciPost Phys. 8, 009 (2020)
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Added several new references as requested in the first report.
Added an extra, final paragraph discussing the right-handed neutrino, as requested in the second report.