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The Standard Model Fermion Spectrum From Complex Projective spaces

It is shown that the quarks and leptons of the standard model, including a right-handed neutrino, can be obtained by gauging the holonomy groups of complex projective spaces of complex dimensions two and three. The spectrum emerges as chiral zero modes of the Dirac operator coupled to gauge fields and the demonstration involves an index theorem analysis on a general complex projective space in the presence of topologically non-trivial SU(n)xU(1) gauge fields. The construction may have applications in type IIA string theory and non-commutative geometry.Comment: 13 pages. Typset using LaTeX and JHEP3 style files. Minor typos correcte

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This paper is devoted to the complete calculation of the additive structure of the 2-torsion of the integral cohomology of the innite special linear group SL(Z) over the ring of integers Z. This enables us to determine the best upper bound for the order of the Chern classes of all integral and rational representations of discrete groups.</p

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