Light-Cone Kaluza-Klein Geometry: Confined Propagation as a Particle Model
Abstract
A modified Kaluza-Klein theory is proposed in which propagation takes place only at the speed of light. The propagation can be confined to a small volume, forming a particle with rest mass. The usual four space-time coordinates locate the confinement volume, and Kaluza's fifth coordinate is replaced by an internal degree of freedom. Electromagnetism corresponds to a gauge field on the phase of the internal motion. Self-gravity might create the confinement, as in a geon, but the particle would have a Planck mass. This large mass could be made closer to the masses of observed particles if gravity were allowed to increase in strength within the confinement volume.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2000
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0004156
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0004156
- Bibcode:
- 2000hep.th....4156J
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 10 equations