Based on a maximally symmetric minimal unification hypothesis and a quantum charge-dimension correspondence principle, it is demonstrated that each family of quarks and leptons belongs to the Majorana–Weyl spinor representation of 14 dimensions that relate to quantum spin-isospin-color charges. Families of quarks and leptons attribute to a spinor structure of extra six dimensions that relate to quantum family charges. Of particular, it is shown that ten dimensions relating to quantum spin-family charges form a motional ten-dimensional quantum spacetime with a generalized Lorentz symmetry SO (1, 9), and ten dimensions relating to quantum isospin-color charges become a motionless ten-dimensional quantum intrinsic space. Its corresponding 32-component fermions in the spinor representation possess a maximal gauge symmetry SO (32). As a consequence, a maximally symmetric minimal unification model SO (32) containing three families in ten-dimensional quantum spacetime is naturally obtained by choosing a suitable Majorana–Weyl spinor structure into which quarks and leptons are directly embedded. Both resulting symmetry and dimensions coincide with those of type I string and heterotic string SO (32) in string theory.
Erratum “Effect of quantum charge screening on dual plasmon scattering” [Phys. Plasmas 26, 112102 (2019)]