https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5504-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Hyperunified field theory and gravitational gauge–geometry duality
1
International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific (ICTP-AP), Beijing, China
2
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
3
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, 100049, China
* e-mail: ylwu@itp.ac.cn
** e-mail: ylwu@ucas.ac.cn
Received:
2
October
2017
Accepted:
22
December
2017
Published online:
13
January
2018
A hyperunified field theory is built in detail based on the postulates of gauge invariance and coordinate independence along with the conformal scaling symmetry. All elementary particles are merged into a single hyper-spinor field and all basic forces are unified into a fundamental interaction governed by the hyper-spin gauge symmetry SP(1, 
). The dimension 
of hyper-spacetime is conjectured to have a physical origin in correlation with the hyper-spin charge of elementary particles. The hyper-gravifield fiber bundle structure of biframe hyper-spacetime appears naturally with the globally flat Minkowski hyper-spacetime as a base spacetime and the locally flat hyper-gravifield spacetime as a fiber that is viewed as a dynamically emerged hyper-spacetime characterized by a non-commutative geometry. The gravitational origin of gauge symmetry is revealed with the hyper-gravifield that plays an essential role as a Goldstone-like field. The gauge–gravity and gravity–geometry correspondences bring about the gravitational gauge–geometry duality. The basic properties of hyperunified field theory and the issue on the fundamental scale are analyzed within the framework of quantum field theory, which allows us to describe the laws of nature in deriving the gauge gravitational equation with the conserved current and the geometric gravitational equations of Einstein-like type and beyond.
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