Five-dimensional relativity and extended elementary particles

✍ Scribed by G. Lessner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 374 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-3804
• DOI: 10.1002/andp.200810353

✦ Synopsis

Five-dimensional relativity, based on the 5-dimensional vacuum equations Rμν = 0, is interpreted as a general relativistic field theory describing the inner structure of extended elementary particles. The most general spherically symmetric, purely electric and asymptotically flat solution of the field equations is calculated. The mass formula of this solution depends on two parameters h > 0 and q > 0, and the mass surface over the (h-q)-plane shows two slits at h = 1/2 and h = √ 3/4. These slits can be tentatively identified as hadron branch for h = 1/2 and lepton branch for h = √ 3/4. In the slits hadrons and leptons with their masses and extensions can be settled in local minima.