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Structural Reconstruction of the Standard Model from SO(10): Gauge Group, Fermion Content, and Anomaly Cancellation

Authors: Jeremy Rodgers;

Structural Reconstruction of the Standard Model from SO(10): Gauge Group, Fermion Content, and Anomaly Cancellation

Abstract

We present a conservative, representation-theoretic reconstruction of the Standard Model as the admissible low-energy realization of an SO(10) unification framework selected by determinant-closure criteria. Working without assumptions about symmetry-breaking dynamics, coupling unification, scalar sectors, or ultraviolet microphysics, we show that the Standard Model gauge group SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1), the chiral fermion content of one generation (including a right-handed neutrino), hypercharge quantization, and anomaly cancellation arise as inherited consequences of restricting a single SO(10) spinor representation. All four-dimensional anomaly conditions, local gauge anomalies, mixed gauge anomalies, mixed gauge–gravity anomalies, and the global SU(2) anomaly are satisfied automatically without introducing additional low-energy chiral exotics. The observed number of fermion generations is treated as an imported result and not re-derived here. The analysis is deliberately structural rather than dynamical: no claims are made regarding fermion masses, Yukawa couplings, flavor hierarchies, symmetry-breaking mechanisms, renormalization-group running, or ultraviolet completion. The result isolates the minimal and conventional representation-theoretic content needed to organize the observed Standard Model as a consistent descent of an admissible SO(10) unification carrier.

Keywords

theoretical physics, Standard Model, SO(10), Grand Unified Theory, beyond the Standard Model, Particle physics, representation theory, hypercharge quantization, high energy physics, gauge group, gauge symmetry, chiral fermions, right-handed neutrino, GUT, particle physics, fermion representations, anomaly cancellation, Theoretical physics

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