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Radical unification

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Unified Theories of Elementary Particles

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In contrast to the common ‘Additive Unification’ schemes, like GUTS etc., a ‘Radical Unification’ scheme — originally suggested by Heisenberg — is adovcated where the fundamental symmetry group and the number of fundamental local fields is required to be minimal: The apparent higher symmetries and the larger number of phenomenological local fields here are effectively generated by the dynamics. In this context a U(1) ⊗ SU(2,loc) invariant theory is considered which is based solely on a single 2×2 component isospinor-spinor field (‘urfield’).

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Dürr, H.P. (1982). Radical unification. In: Breitenlohner, P., Dürr, H.P. (eds) Unified Theories of Elementary Particles. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11560-9_3

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