Dimensional Reduction
Dimensional Reduction
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DOI:
10.1142/s0217732399000134
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发表时间:
1998-07
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影响因子:
12.8
通讯作者:
C. Manogue;T. Dray
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作者:
C. Manogue;T. Dray
Using an octonionic formalism, we introduce a new mechanism for reducing 10 spacetime dimensions to 4 without compactification. Applying this mechanism to the free, 10-dimensional, massless (momentum space) Dirac equation results in a particle spectrum consisting of exactly 3 generations. Each generation contains 1 massive spin-1/2 particle with 2 spin states, 1 massless spin-1/2 particle with only 1 helicity state, and their antiparticles --- precisely one generation of leptons. There is also a single massless spin-1/2 particle/antiparticle pair with the opposite helicity and no generation structure. We conclude with a discussion of some further consequences of this approach, including those which could arise when using the formalism on a curved spacetime background, as well as the implications for the nature of spacetime itself.