Particle topology, braids, and braided belts

DOI10.1063/1.3237148MaRDI QIDQ3583703zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Hackett, Louis Kauffman, Sundance Bilson-Thompson

Publication date 17 August 2010

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1376

zbMATH Keywords

topologyquantum gravitygroup theoryfermionsbosons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Recent work suggests that topological features of certain quantum gravity theories can be interpreted as particles, matching the known fermions and bosons of the first generation in the Standard Model. This is achieved by identifying topological structures with elements of the framed Artin braid group on three strands, and demonstrating a correspondence between the invariants used to characterise these braids (a braid is a set of non-intersecting curves, that connect one set of $N$ points with another set of $N$ points), and quantities like electric charge, colour charge, and so on. In this paper we show how to manipulate a modified form of framed braids to yield an invariant standard form for sets of isomorphic braids, characterised by a vector of real numbers. This will serve as a basis for more complete discussions of quantum numbers in future work.

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