DYNAMICS OF MATTER IN A COMPACTIFIED KALUZA–KLEIN MODEL

DOI10.1142/S0218271809014844zbMATH Open1168.83337arXiv0902.1718MaRDI QIDQ3394748FDOQ3394748

Authors: Valentino Lacquaniti, Giovanni Montani 

Publication date: 8 September 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A longstanding problem in Kaluza-Klein models is the description of matter dynamics. Within the 5D model, the dimensional reduction of the geodesic motion for a 5D free test particle formally restores electrodynamics, but the reduced 4D particle shows a charge-mass ratio that is upper bounded, such that it cannot fit to any kind of elementary particle. At the same time, from the quantum dynamics viewpoint, there is the problem of the huge massive modes generation. We present a criticism against the 5D geodesic approach and face the hypothesis that in Kaluza-Klein space the geodesic motion does not deal with the real dynamics of test particle. We propose a new approach: starting from the conservation equation for the 5D matter tensor, within the Papapetrou multipole expansion, we prove that the 5D dynamical equation differs from the 5D geodesic one. Our new equation provides right coupling terms without bounding and in such a scheme the tower of massive modes is removed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1718

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zbMATH Keywords

particle motionKaluza-Klein theoryPapapetrou approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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