Fermions, differential forms and doubled geometry

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.09.006MaRDI QIDQ1993675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kirill Krasnov

Publication date 5 November 2018

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06160

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We show that all fermions of one generation of the Standard Model (SM) can be elegantly described by a single fixed parity (say even) inhomogeneous real-valued differential form in seven dimensions. In this formalism the full kinetic term of the SM fermionic Lagrangian is reproduced as the appropriate dimensional reduction of (Psi, D Psi) where Psi is a general even degree differential form in R^7, the inner product is as described in the main text, and D is essentially an appropriately interpreted exterior derivative operator. The new formalism is based on geometric constructions originating in the subjects of generalised geometry and double field theory.

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