Unifying Gravities with Internal Interactions based on $SO(10)$ GUT

Abstract

Building on two key ingredients, namely the well established gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity and the observation that the tangent space of a curved manifold need not have the same dimension as the manifold, we discuss how all known fundamental interactions can be accommodated within a single unified framework. The unification is realised by enlarging the tangent group of the four-dimensional spacetime manifold to $SO(2,16)$, a choice that simultaneously encompasses both the gauge group underlying the gravitational sector and the $SO(10)$ Grand Unified Theory for the internal interactions. The gravitational theories entering this construction are Conformal Gravity and Fuzzy (Noncommutative) Gravity, each formulated in gauge-theoretic terms.