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The exceptional E6 group is a candidate local symmetry for a Yang-Mills theory that unifies electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions. Several ways of incorporating the fermion spectrum are discussed, including an amusing example where some of the known spin 1/2 fermions are composite states of elementary fermions and some scalar particles in the theory. The symmetry properties and the representations of E6 are reviewed, the symmetry breaking classified, and the dynamical breaking of the weak interaction gauge group is discussed, all in some detail using Dynkin’s representation theory.
Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Slansky, R. (1980). Fun with E6 . In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) Recent Developments in High-Energy Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3165-0_11
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