Trouble with the minimal renormalizable SO(10) GUT

Renormalizable minimal SO(10) GUT in 4D and 5D

Abstract. This report is a review of the present status of GUT, especially renormalizable minimal SO(10) GUT, and its future prospect. It consists of two parts. In part I, I review how the minimal renormalizable supersymmetric SO(10) GUT, an SO(10) framework with only one 10 and one 126 Higgs multiplets in the Yukawa sector, is attractive because of its high predictivity. Indeed it not only gav...

The New Minimal Supersymmetric GUT

The Supersymmetric SO(10) GUT based on the 210⊕ 10⊕ 120⊕ 126⊕ 126 Higgs system and only spontaneous CP violation has 24 real superpotential parameters. It is compatible with all current low energy data and yet has enough freedom to accommodate the still unknown Leptonic CP violation and neutrino mass scale parameters. It is thus the New Minimal Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theory(NMSGUT). We co...

Trouble with Overconfidence 1 Running head: TROUBLE WITH OVERCONFIDENCE The Trouble with Overconfidence

This paper presents a reconciliation of the three distinct ways in which the research literature has defined overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s actual performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) excessive precision in one’s beliefs. Experimental evidence shows that reversals of the first two (apparent underconfidence), when they occur, tend to be on ...

The trouble with translation

The Trouble with Cases

The recent hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's and Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nominations to the Supreme Court vividly exemplify the enthusiastic concurrence between the senators and the nominee that judges make neither law nor policy. Judges decide particular cases between particu­ lar litigants, the questioners and the responders agree, and in doing so they apply laws and policies made b...