The Deformation Conjecture on the emergence of internal symmetries

The Standard Model has internal symmetries describing elementary particles, while relativistic symmetries describe spacetime transformations. The Deformation Conjecture. Internal symmetries of elementary particles emerge from their relativistic counterparts by some form of deformation, possibly generalized and including quantization. This proposes a general mathematical route toward explaining why the Standard Model has the symmetries it does, rather than merely describing how those symmetries operate; the source presents it as a tentative research direction, and no resolution is stated.