Geometric origin of physical constants in a Kaluza-Klein tetrad model

DOI10.1007/S10702-006-1056-8zbMATH Open1117.83105arXiv0706.1721OpenAlexW3104728698MaRDI QIDQ867189FDOQ867189

Authors: Frank Reifler, Randall Morris 

Publication date: 15 February 2007

Published in: Foundations of Physics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An important feature of Kaluza-Klein theories is their ability to relate fundamental physical constants to the radii of higher dimensions. In previous Kaluza-Klein theory, which unifies the electromagnetic field with gravity as dimensionless components of a Kaluza-Klein metric, i) all fields have the same physical dimensions, ii) the Lagrangian has no explicit dependence on any physical constants except mass, and hence iii) all physical constants in the field equations except for mass originate from geometry. While it seems natural in Kaluza-Klein theory to add fermion fields by defining higher dimensional bispinor fields on the Kaluza-Klein manifold, these Kaluza-Klein theories do not satisfy conditions (i), (ii), and (iii). In this paper, we show how conditions (i), (ii), and (iii) can be satisfied by including bispinor fields in a tetrad formulation of the Kaluza-Klein model, as well as in an equivalent teleparallel model. This demonstrates an unexpected feature of Dirac's bispinor equation, since conditions (i), (ii), (iii) imply a special relation among the terms in the Kaluza-Klein or teleparallel Lagrangian that would not be satisfied in general.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1721

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

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