Matrix Models, Emergent Spacetime and Symmetry Breaking

TL;DR

This paper explores how a matrix model for emergent gravity can also account for features of the standard model, including symmetry breaking and fermion quantum numbers.

Contribution

It proposes that a matrix model not only describes emergent gravity but also reproduces key standard model characteristics such as symmetry breaking.

Findings

Matrix models can reproduce symmetry breaking.

Fermion quantum numbers are consistent with the standard model.

The model suggests extra degrees of freedom for standard model features.

Abstract

We discuss how a matrix model recently shown to describe emergent gravity may contain extra degrees of freedom which reproduce some characteristics of the standard model, in particular the breaking of symmetries and the correct quantum numbers of fermions.