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The assumption that space-time is a noncommutative space formed as a product of a continuous four dimensional manifold times a finite space predicts, almost uniquely, the Standard Model with all its fermions, gauge fields, Higgs field and their representations. A strong restriction on the noncommutative space results from the first order condition which came from the requirement that the Dirac operator is a differential operator of order one. Without this restriction, invariance under inner automorphisms requires the inner fluctuations of the Dirac operator to contain a quadratic piece expressed in terms of the linear part. We apply the classification of product noncommutative spaces without the first ordercondition and show that this leads immediately to a Pati-Salam SU(2) R × SU(2) L × SU(4) type model which unifies leptons and quarks in four colors. Besides the gauge fields, there are 16 fermions in the (2, 2, 4) representation, fundamental Higgs fields in the (2, 2, 1), (2, 1, 4) and (1, 1, 1 + 15) representations. Depending on the precise form of the initial Dirac operator there are additional Higgs fields which are either composite depending on the fundamental Higgs fields listed above, or are fundamental themselves. These additional Higgs fields break spontaneously the Pati-Salam symmetries at high energies to those of the Standard Model.
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Chamseddine, A.H., Connes, A. & van Suijlekom, W.D. Beyond the spectral standard model: emergence of Pati-Salam unification. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 132 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2013)132
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