TY - M-10405
AU - Omekagu, Joseph
TI - Toward a Unified Gauge–Geometric Paradigm: Contemporary Advances in Merging Gravity with the Standard Model
T2 - Scientific Research Journal of Environment, Earth and Physical Science

PY - 2025
VL - 3
IS - 2
SN - 2584-0614

AB - Contemporary theoretical physics faces its most persistent challenge: constructing a coherent, predictive, and mathematically sound unification framework that merges quantum field theory with the geometric foundations of general relativity. Recent developments across gauge-theoretical, geometric, and scalar-discrete approaches have produced innovative directions aiming to bridge this foundational gap. This review synthesizes insights from modern gauge-gravity unification theories, including gauge-induced gravity, nonlinear geometric frameworks, holomorphic unification, consistent gauge actions, and quantum-field-theoretic treatments of gravity. Additionally, discrete scalar frameworks highlight alternative pathways beyond continuum geometry. By integrating these diverse viewpoints, the review identifies conceptual convergence points, assesses theoretical consistency, outlines mathematical innovations, and maps out open questions in the pursuit of a unified physical law. The objective is to present a clear, critical synthesis of current research trajectories and to highlight how modern gauge structures and geometric reformulations may ultimately lead to a full quantum theory of gravity compatible with the Standard Model.

KW - Unified gauge symmetries
KW -  quantum gravity
KW -  Standard Model unification
KW -  holomorphic field theory
KW -  Weyl–Born–Infeld geometry
KW -  discrete scalar framework
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