Constraints on Unified Gauge Theories from Noncommutative Geometry

We analyze the possibility to extend the Connes and Lott reformulation of the standard model to larger unified gauge groups. Noncommutative geometry imposes very stringent constraints on the possible theories, and remarkably, the analysis seems to suggest that no larger gauge groups are compatible with the noncommutative structure, unless one enlarges the fermionic degrees of freedom, namely the number of particles