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A Note on the Gauge Group of the Electroweak Interactions

V. Rizov, I. Vitev

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0009169

Abstract

We propose a three-fold covering of the group U(2) as a gauge group for the electroweak interactions for the purpose of describing fields with integer and fractional electric charges with respect to the residual electromagnetic gauge group after a spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry. In a more general scheme we construct a three-fold covering of U (n) and consider for the case n=2 several representations which are used in the construction of a model of the electroweak interactions in a subsequent paper.

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