The Mysteries of Fermions
Abstract
It is conjectured that all known fermions are topological solitons. This could explain the non-observation of bosonic leptons and baryons and provide a physical mechanism for the Pauli exclusion principle.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Theoretical Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10773-010-0292-7
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0901.3816
- Bibcode:
- 2010IJTP...49.1174W
- Keywords:
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- Fermions;
- Topological solitons;
- Skyrme and Higgs Lagrangians;
- Bosonic leptons and baryons;
- Pauli exclusion principle;
- Supersymmetry;
- Scalar fields;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 14 pages Minor editorial changes. Accepted to Int. J. Theor. Phys