Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-01-08
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Plenary Talk delivered at Groupe 24 Conference, Paris, July 2002
Scientific paper
Quarks and leptons charges and interactions are derived from gauge theories associated with symmetries. Their space-time labels come from representations of the non-compact algebra of Special Relativity. Common to these descriptions are the Lie groups stemming from their invariances. Does Nature use Exceptional Groups, the most distinctive among them? We examine the case for and against their use. They do indeed appear in charge space, as the Standard Model fits naturally inside the exceptional group $E_6$. Further, the advent of the $E_8\times E_8$ Heterotic Superstring theory adds credibility to this venue. On the other hand, their use as space-time labels has not been as evident as they link spinors and tensors under space rotations, which flies in the face of the spin-statistics connection. We discuss a way to circumvent this difficulty in trying to generalize eleven-dimensional supergravity.
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