Conformal symmetry, SM and Gravity
Abstract
This paper is a bottom up attempt to incorporate the standard model and general relativity in a unique quantum field theory. The tentative model presented here in particular is free of chiral gauge and gravitational anomalies that appear in the divergence of currents, and in the divergence and trace of the energy-momentum tensor when the SM matter couples to gravity. The fermion spectrum is composed of two multiplets, the SM (left) multiplet and a mirror copy (right) with opposite handedness. The right multiplet is interpreted as describing the dark matter world. The natural symmetry of the theory is enlarged to incorporate also Weyl invariance, by introducing one or more dilaton fields. After the cosmological and theoretical motivations, the necessary formalism is introduced for algebraic renormalization: gauge fixings, ghosts, propagators and vertices and their interplay in guaranteeing the conditions for convergence of the subtracted amplitudes according to the BPHZL scheme, the Slavnov-Taylor identity and the relevant enlarged BRST symmetry. The corresponding (conformal) cohomology is analyzed and found to be trivial: there are no non-trivial even trace anomalies in theories with dilatons, but there are plenty of trivial ones, which require corresponding counterterms in the effective action. It is shown that such counterterms can play an important role in freeing the theory of unphysical particles.
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BibTeX
@misc{bonora2026conformal,
title = {{Conformal symmetry, SM and Gravity}},
author = {Loriano Bonora},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.22354},
eprint = {2607.22354},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22354},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Conformal symmetry, SM and Gravity
AU - Loriano Bonora
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.22354
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22354
AB - This paper is a bottom up attempt to incorporate the standard model and general relativity in a unique quantum field theory. The tentative model presented here in particular is free of chiral gauge and gravitational anomalies that appear in the divergence of currents, and in the divergence and trace of the energy-momentum tensor when the SM matter couples to gravity. The fermion spectrum is composed of two multiplets, the SM (left) multiplet and a mirror copy (right) with opposite handedness. The right multiplet is interpreted as describing the dark matter world. The natural symmetry of the theory is enlarged to incorporate also Weyl invariance, by introducing one or more dilaton fields. After the cosmological and theoretical motivations, the necessary formalism is introduced for algebraic renormalization: gauge fixings, ghosts, propagators and vertices and their interplay in guaranteeing the conditions for convergence of the subtracted amplitudes according to the BPHZL scheme, the Slavnov-Taylor identity and the relevant enlarged BRST symmetry. The corresponding (conformal) cohomology is analyzed and found to be trivial: there are no non-trivial even trace anomalies in theories with dilatons, but there are plenty of trivial ones, which require corresponding counterterms in the effective action. It is shown that such counterterms can play an important role in freeing the theory of unphysical particles.
ER -