Application of Conformal Gauge Theories Derived from Field-String Duality

TL;DR

This paper explores the connection between string theory and conformal gauge theories via field-string duality, proposing models that could impact grand unified theories and addressing their gravitational duals.

Contribution

It introduces a class of non-supersymmetric conformal gauge theories derived from field-string duality, with specific gauge group representations and potential implications for the standard model.

Findings

Proposes conformal gauge theories from field-string duality.

Suggests these models could nullify the GUT hierarchy.

Discusses the dual gravity relationship, absent in the gauge theories.

Abstract

In this article I first give an abbreviated history of string theory and then describe the recently-conjectured field-string duality. This suggests a class of nonsupersymmetric gauge theories which are conformal (CGT) to leading order of 1/N and some of which may be conformal for finite N. These models are very rigid since the gauge group representations of not only the chiral fermions but also the Higgs scalars are prescribed by the construction. If the standard model becomes conformal at TeV scales the GUT hierarchy is nullified, and model-building on this basis is an interesting direction. Some comments are added about the dual relationship to gravity which is absent in the CGT description.