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Standard model. Particles, gauge structure and couplings Tagged papers: 38.
Joint Bruhat–Tits Tree Product as a Testable Cross‑Domain Structure for Standard‑Model Mass Ratios, Quantum‑Error‑Correction Lattices, and Efimov Scaling
The Standard‑Model mass spectrum, Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) lattice spacings, and Efimov discrete‑scaling factor are each treated as empirical inputs, limiting predictive power. A conjectured universal geometry—the diagonal embedding of the product of Bruhat–Tits trees…
Helical Electron Structure at the Compton Scale: Geometric Origin of the Fine-Structure Constant and Corrections to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment
The fine-structure constant $\alpha$ governs the strength of electromagnetic interactions, yet in the Standard Model it remains an unexplained dimensionless input, and the electron is treated as a point particle. This leaves open the question of whether $\alpha$ and the electron's anomalous magnetic…
Joint Bruhat–Tits Tree Product as a Candidate Universal Structure for Standard Model Mass Ratios, Quantum Error-Correction Lattices, and Efimov Scaling: Formalization, Arithmetic Consequences, and a Partial Falsification
The Standard Model (SM) treats particle masses as free parameters, quantum-error-correction (QEC) lattice designs are chosen by heuristic optimization, and the Efimov discrete scaling factor lacks a structural explanation; a single mathematical object generating all three would change how each…
Ostrowski's Classification as a Selection Rule: A Falsifiable Program for the Adelic Shadow of the Standard Model Gauge Group
Ostrowski's theorem classifies the completions of the rational numbers $\mathbb{Q}$: exactly one Archimedean completion, $\mathbb{R}$, and one $p$-adic completion $\mathbb{Q}_p$ for each prime. Theoretical physics uses only the first. A conjecture in the adelic physics program holds that the…
Adelic Consistency Conditions Across Primes as a Candidate Selection Principle for Physical Constants: Formulation, Negative Control, and Toy Dynamics
The three constants problem—why the fine-structure constant takes its observed value, why charged-lepton masses are hierarchically spaced, and what fixes the absolute mass scale—has no accepted resolution within the Standard Model. We develop a research program, stated as a testable conjecture…
The Base State Hypothesis: A Falsification Protocol for a Substrate Capable of Hosting the Standard Model, Audited Against Contemporary Quantum Platforms
We formalize the question of whether a single, explicitly constructible quantum object — a "Base State" — could serve as a substrate on which the structure of the Standard Model is hosted, rather than the Standard Model being assembled from particle-like primitives on a qubit-gate substrate. A Base…
Spectral Decomposition of the Bruhat–Tits Tree as a Candidate Origin of Particle Mass Hierarchies: Exact Radial Spectrum, Finite Truncations, Semigroup Tests, and a Falsification Analysis
The Bruhat–Tits tree $\mathcal{T}_p$ of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ is the infinite $(p+1)$-regular tree that serves as the bulk of $p$-adic AdS/CFT. We test the conjecture that a natural Laplacian on $\mathcal{T}_p$ — or the prime-indexed arithmetic of the tree — encodes Standard Model mass ratios. We compute,…
Braid Group Representations and the Uniqueness of Modular Data: The Ising Test Case and General Limitations
We investigate whether the unitary braid group representation carried by a collection of non‑Abelian anyons uniquely determines the modular data—namely the $S$ and $T$ matrices—of the underlying modular tensor category (MTC). Using the Ising anyon theory as a concrete laboratory, we reconstruct the…
Braid Group Representations, Modular Data, and the Classification of Majorana Zero Mode Fusion Rules in Two-Dimensional Topological Superconductors
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) bound to vortices of a two-dimensional topological superconductor (2D TSC) realize non-Abelian anyons whose exchange is described by a projective representation of the braid group $B_N$. The associated anyon theory is encoded in a modular tensor category (MTC) with fusion…
A Falsifiability‑First Audit Program for the Photon‑Primacy, Helical‑Electron, and Adelic‑Mass Claim Cluster
The photon‑primacy / helical‑electron / adelic‑mass cluster proposes that particle rest‑energies arise from photonic circulation, that electron spin is literal helical motion at twice the Compton frequency, and that mass ratios encode arithmetic structure on Bruhat–Tits trees. The literature…
One Table, Two Regimes: Standard-Model Particles and Condensed-Matter Excitations as Patterns on the Bruhat-Tits Tree
Physics maintains two particle catalogs that never meet in one framework: the Standard Model's finite table of elementary fermions and bosons, and the open-ended zoo of quasiparticles and anyons discovered in condensed matter. This paper assembles both catalogs into a single pattern table on the…
The Boson/Fermion Distinction: Spin-Statistics as Structural Invariant
The textbook dichotomy between bosons and fermions is commonly presented as a primitive classification of nature. This paper argues that the dichotomy is a derived, dimension-dependent shadow of a single structural relation: the exchange phase of identical particles equals their topological spin, R…
The Falsifiability Crisis in Contemporary Physics: LCDM, the Standard Model, and the Measurement-Exercise Trap
Contemporary fundamental physics has become de-facto unfalsifiable through five structural patterns. Proposes the Bayesian delta-log-odds gate as a methodological solution.
The Adelic Cross-Domain Program: From the Fine-Structure Constant to the Standard Model Mass Spectrum via Bruhat-Tits Trees
v3.2 corrections (2026-07-25): arithmetic errors in mass ratio triplets corrected (5 of 9 verified independently); Efimov lambda derivation replaced with honest structural correspondence; constraining literature section added per KIF-18 symmetry; semigroup density epistemological risk acknowledged;…
Consilience Between Physics and Number Theory: Convergent Theses from Ostrowski's Theorem to Adelic Quantum Mechanics
We synthesize convergent evidence from physics (quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, zitterbewegung, quantum error correction, the Standard Model mass spectrum) and number theory (Ostrowski's theorem, Tate's thesis, the Riemann zeta function, Bruhat-Tits buildings, the adele ring) into a unified…
The Adelic Cross-Domain Program v5.0: From the Fine-Structure Constant to the Standard Model Mass Spectrum via Bruhat–Tits Trees
The Adelic Cross-Domain Program maps the architecture of the Standard Model onto the geometry of Bruhat–Tits trees — the p-adic analogues of hyperbolic space. The fine-structure constant α, the renormalization group, quantum error correction, the Efimov effect, and the Standard Model mass spectrum…
Kappa/SIIT Cross-Validation: Exact Reproduction of Standard Model 1-Loop β-Functions and Resolution of the Harmonic-Paradigm Tension
We report a direct mathematical cross-validation of the Kappa / Scale-Invariant Information Thermodynamics framework (Quni-Gudzinas, 2025, the QNFO archive 17218944/17230397) against the Standard Model's known 1-loop renormalization-group β-functions. Through the single definition…
The Adelic Cross-Domain Program: From the Fine-Structure Constant to the Standard Model Mass Spectrum via Bruhat-Tits Trees (Phase 3-4 Update)
Cross-Domain Phase 2 synthesis paper uniting six avenues (X1-X6). Key result: the Pythagorean semigroup P={2^a·3^b·5^c} is simultaneously the SM mass spectrum, GKP code lattice, Efimov discretuum, and diagonal embedding of T_{2,3,5}. Full calibration register with 15 entries.
Compton Frequency Cross-Ratios on Bruhat-Tits Trees: A Pre-Registered Search for Adelic Structure in the Standard Model Mass Spectrum (Version 2.3)
Version 1.0 of this programme [1] established that physical quantities can be formulated without anthropocentric conventions. Its extension into an "Adelic Theory of Everything" [2] attempted to match Standard Model particle masses to CM j-invariants via decimal PDG data — an approach we now…
Non-Anthropocentric Natural Units: From the Bekenstein Bound to Ostrowski's Theorem
We strip away all anthropocentric constructions from the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy bound. Area as dimensionless geometric invariant; exponential bound defined without logarithmic base; integer Hilbert space dimension as universal invariant. Ostrowski's theorem reveals the Archimedean completion is…
Adelic Constraints on Quantum Field Theory — Phase 3 Synthesis
<p>Phase 3 of the Adelic Constraints on Quantum Field Theory project investigated the central open question left by Phase 2: Does the adelic framework make a falsifiable numerical prediction that differs from the Standard Model? The specific target was the suggestive coincidence discovered in Phase…
Quantum Fraud
In 1900, Max Planck, desperate to salvage the failing theory of blackbody radiation, scribbled down an equation that would change physics forever—not because it was true, but because it worked. His “quantum hypothesis” was, by his own admission, a “purely formal assumption,” a mathematical trick…
Meta-Pattern of Reification in Physics
The practice of physics, like all scientific inquiry, operates through a delicate interplay between the observable world and the conceptual frameworks we construct to understand it. At the heart of this interplay lies a persistent cognitive trap: the tendency to mistake our mathematical models,…
Clockwork Cosmos
Classical physics operates on the foundational assumption that space and time form a smooth, infinitely divisible continuum. Providing the mathematical scaffolding for calculus, this geometric model allowed early physicists to calculate macroscopic gravitational trajectories with high reliability.…
Superfluid Vacuum Theory
The historical incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics is identified not as a fundamental paradox of nature, but as an artifact of the “binning error”—the methodological fallacy of mistaking emergent topological stability for fundamental discreteness. This paper proposes a…
Relativistic Topological Superfluid
Standard cosmological models assume a static vacuum energy density, yet this premise conflicts with the renormalization group flow of quantum field theory and the fine-tuning required for dark energy. Simultaneously, high-energy astrophysical observations impose a strict “glass floor” on Lorentz…
Resonant Spinor Topology and the Vacuum Horizon
Standard chemical models assume a scalar accumulation of protons defines periodicity. However, the breakdown of group homology in superheavy elements remains unexplained by electrostatics alone. Here, the periodic table is re-derived as a topological manifold of relativistic spinor modes generated…
THERMODYNAMIC GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL
This paper investigates the thermodynamic viability of the Base State-Disturbance ontology, which posits that the Standard Model emerges from a topological phase transition in the early universe. We hypothesize that the vacuum is the ground state of a Rank-42 Walker-Wang model derived from the…
Hamiltonian Engineering of Topological Deconfinement in Weyl Semimetals
The theoretical existence of the magnetic monopole has long represented a foundational prediction in physics, with significant implications for technology. However, astrophysical constraints (the Parker Bound) render the extraction of cosmic monopoles physically and economically non-viable. This…
Derivation of SM Gauge Couplings
Objective: To derive the relationship between the Standard Model’s gauge couplings and the Kappa information field (\(\kappa(x)\)) using a self-contained, category-theoretic approach based on the principle of scale-invariant information thermodynamics. This derivation establishes that effective…
Higgs Particle Never Existed
The 2012 announcement of the discovery of a new boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was interpreted as the detection of the Higgs particle, a foundational component of the Standard Model. This document presents a formal proof, derived from the first principles of quantum field theory,…
Not Even Wrong
This document presents a rigorous, multi-faceted mathematical deconstruction of String Theory’s claim to be a physical theory of nature. Quantitative metrics are systematically derived for its empirical vacuum, unfalsifiability, and information-theoretic cost, while acknowledging its significant…
Proton Football
How the “God Particle” Was Demoted to Just a “Mechanism” in the Standard Model of Particle Physics*** A profound epistemological schism exists at the foundation of contemporary high-energy physics: a systemic conflict between its operational reality as a relativistic quantum field theory and the…
Scale-Divergence Problem
This document provides a rigorous examination of the Scale-Divergence Problem, a fundamental schism in modern cosmology that arises from the antithetical performance of the two leading theoretical frameworks—Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)—across different…
Standard Model
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics represents the most precise and empirically successful framework devised for describing fundamental particles and their interactions. This rigorous empirical success is intrinsically coupled with severe, formally demonstrable theoretical deficiencies that…
Critical Examination of Spacetime, Mass, and Gravity through Competing Ontological Frameworks
Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO ORCID: 0009-0002-4317-5604 DOI: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers Related Works: - A Critical Examination of Spacetime, Mass, and Gravity through a Meta-Analysis of Competing Ontological…
Geometric Unification Framework
The pursuit of a so-called “theory of everything” (TOE) aims to move beyond phenomenological descriptions of nature, establishing an explanatory framework based on fundamental first principles. Such frameworks derive the observed laws of physics and their associated constants not from empirical…
Strange Loop Formal Derivation
This paper presents a rigorous mathematical derivation of the Standard Model of particle physics as the unique, stable solution to a universal fixed-point equation. Starting from the Principle of Informational Stability—the axiom that the universe must preserve information to sustain stable…
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