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Yves Gouverneur

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Anomaly Constraints and Number of Families

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question : is it possible to find a gauge group G and a space-time dimension D such that anomalies constrain the fermion content to be composed of the 3 known families of quarks and leptons ? The answer is, in some way, unique and consists in taking an SU(5) gauge group in 6 dimensions. This work has been done with the collaboration of N. Borghini and M. H. Tytgat.

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Anomalies and Fermion Content of Grand Unified Theories in Extra Dimensions

The restrictions imposed by anomaly cancellation on the chiral fermion content of nonsupersymmetric gauge theories based on various groups are studied in spacetime dimension D=6, 8, and 10. In particular, we show that the only mathematically consistent chiral SU(5) theory in D=6 contains three nonidentical generations.

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