Derivation of the set of the fundamental interactions from first principles

Jiri Voltr

doi:10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02169-2

Abstract

Global conservation laws require the fundamental interactions to be processes which transfer information from one particle to another. Therefore, in order to show what types of interactions may exist, we derive from the very first principles a set of the most fundamental information transfers and their basic properties. Within these information transfers, we identify candidates for gravitational, electromagnetic and strong scattering, and also for weak decay. We do it by taking the characteristic properties of each fundamental interaction, such as confinement or parity violation, and by using them to rule out information transfers without these properties. The found mapping then makes possible to study the information transfers in order to get knowledge about the corresponding fundamental interactions.

Highlights

One of the unsolved problems in high-energy physics is the question whether all the four known fundamental interactions can be unified into a single theory [1]
The first step toward the answer was made in 1960s when electromagnetic and weak interaction were unified into one electroweak theory [2–5]
The principal goal of this paper is to try to map the fundamental interactions onto the fundamental information transfers as fast as possible

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Introduction

One of the unsolved problems in high-energy physics is the question whether all the four known fundamental interactions can be unified into a single theory [1]. The first step toward the answer was made in 1960s when electromagnetic and weak interaction were unified into one electroweak theory [2–5]. There have been proposed several models unifying electroweak theory with strong interaction [6–8]. There have been attempts to include gravity, and nowadays, the most promising models being able to unify all the fundamental interactions are supergravity and superstring models [11,12]. All these models, lack any experimental evidence as well. The unification of the fundamental interactions, still remains unresolved, and it seems that in order to make progress, we need an entirely novel approach [17, 18]

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