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Six flavors of quarks but only three flavors of leptons

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Fryberger's self-consistency condition for the mean leptonic mass in QED with bare-mass zero and a quantum-gravitational cutoff indicates that there exist six flavors of quarks but only three flavors of leptons. For three flavors there is an explicit expression for the charged lepton mass operator.

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  1. Department of Physics, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Gerald Rosen

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This work was supported by NASA grant No. NSG 7491.

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Rosen, G. Six flavors of quarks but only three flavors of leptons. Int J Theor Phys 19, 393–395 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00671991

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