SEMICLASSICAL DECAY OF KALUZA-KLEIN VACUUM IN HIGHER DERIVATIVE GRAVITY

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (17) ◽  
pp. 1621-1626
Author(s):  
BIPLAB BHAWAL ◽  
H.S. MANI

Semiclassical decay of the ground state of Kaluza-Klein theory has been studied in the context of higher derivative corrections to the Einstein action. Two solutions describing the decay state of the vacuum have been obtained. The first solution is asymptotic to the Witten bubble space-time, whereas the second solution is entirely new, but with the same physical properties. Properties of these solutions are discussed.

1995 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 639-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW BILLYARD ◽  
PAUL S. WESSON ◽  
DIMITRI KALLIGAS

The augmentation of general relativity’s spacetime by one or more dimensions is described by Kaluza-Klein theory and is within testable limits. Should an extra dimension be observable and significant, it would be beneficial to know how physical properties would differ from “conventional” relativity. In examining the class of five-dimensional solutions analogous to the four-dimensional Schwarzschild solution, we examine where the origin to the system is located and note that it can differ from the four-dimensional case. Furthermore, we study circular orbits and find that the 5D case is much richer; photons can have stable circular orbits in some instances, and stable orbits can exist right to the new origin in others. Finally, we derive both gravitational and inertial masses and find that they do not generally agree, although they can in a limiting case. For all three examinations, it is possible to obtain the four-dimensional results in one limiting case, that of the Schwarzschild solution plus a flat fifth dimension, and that the differences between 4D and 5D occur when the fifth dimension obtains any sort of significance.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (28n29) ◽  
pp. 5905-5956 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATEJ PAVŠIČ

A theory in which four-dimensional space–time is generalized to a larger space, namely a 16-dimensional Clifford space (C-space) is investigated. Curved Clifford space can provide a realization of Kaluza–Klein. A covariant Dirac equation in curved C-space is explored. The generalized Dirac field is assumed to be a polyvector-valued object (a Clifford number) which can be written as a superposition of four independent spinors, each spanning a different left ideal of Clifford algebra. The general transformations of a polyvector can act from the left and/or from the right, and form a large gauge group which may contain the group U (1) × SU (2) × SU (3) of the standard model. The generalized spin connection in C-space has the properties of Yang–Mills gauge fields. It contains the ordinary spin connection related to gravity (with torsion), and extra parts describing additional interactions, including those described by the antisymmetric Kalb–Ramond fields.


2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (29) ◽  
pp. 5043-5050 ◽  
Author(s):  
YONGGE MA ◽  
JUN WU

A free test particle in five-dimensional Kaluza–Klein space–time will show its electricity in the reduced four-dimensional space–time when it moves along the fifth dimension. In the light of this observation, we study the coupling of a five-dimensional dust field with the Kaluza–Klein gravity. It turns out that the dust field can curve the five-dimensional space–time in such a way that it provides exactly the source of the electromagnetic field in the four-dimensional space–time after the dimensional reduction.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350004 ◽  
Author(s):  
AUREL BEJANCU

This is the first paper in a series of three papers on a new approach for space-time-matter (STM) theory. The main purpose of this approach is to replace the Levi-Civita connection on the space-time from the classical Kaluza–Klein theory by what we call the Riemannian horizontal connection on the general Kaluza–Klein space. This is done by a development of a 4D tensor calculus whose geometrical objects live in a 5D space. The 4D tensor calculus and the Riemannian horizontal connection enable us to define in a 5D space some 4D differential operators: horizontal differential, horizontal gradient, horizontal divergence and horizontal Laplacian, which have a great role in the presentation of the STM theory in a covariant form. Finally, we introduce and study the horizontal electromagnetic tensor field, the horizontal Ricci tensor and the horizontal Einstein gravitational tensor field, which replace the well-known tensor fields from the classical Kaluza–Klein theory.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Faizuddin Ahmed

In this paper, we solve a generalized Klein-Gordon oscillator in the cosmic string space-time with a scalar potential of Cornell-type within the Kaluza-Klein theory and obtain the relativistic energy eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. We extend this analysis by replacing the Cornell-type with Coulomb-type potential in the magnetic cosmic string space-time and analyze a relativistic analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect for bound states.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Vegt

Albert Einstein, Lorentz and Minkowski published in 1905 the Theory of Special Relativity and Einstein published in 1915 his field theory of general relativity based on a curved 4-dimensional space-time continuum to integrate the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field in one unified field. Since then the method of Einstein’s unifying field theory has been developed by many others in more than 4 dimensions resulting finally in the well-known 10-dimensional and 11-dimensional “string theory”. String theory is an outgrowth of S-matrix theory, a research program begun by Werner Heisenberg in 1943 (following John Archibald Wheeler‘s(3) 1937 introduction of the S-matrix), picked up and advocated by many prominent theorists starting in the late 1950’s.Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza (1885-1954), was a German mathematician and physicist well-known for the Kaluza–Klein theory involving field equations in curved five-dimensional space. His idea that fundamental forces can be unified by introducing additional dimensions re-emerged much later in the “String Theory”.The original Kaluza-Klein theory was one of the first attempts to create an unified field theory i.e. the theory, which would unify all the forces under one fundamental law. It was published in 1921 by Theodor Kaluza and extended in 1926 by Oskar Klein. The basic idea of this theory was to postulate one extra compactified space dimension and introduce nothing but pure gravity in a new (1 + 4)-dimensional space-time. Klein suggested that the fifth dimension would be rolled up into a tiny, compact loop on the order of 10-35 [m]The presented "New Unification Theory" unifies Classical Electrodynamics with General Relativity and Quantum Physics


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (21) ◽  
pp. 5105-5113 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. MACÍAS ◽  
H. DEHNEN

In this work we investigate the five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory with a scalar field contained in the metric, where a Dirac-field is coupled to the metric field. We find that in the four-dimensional theory a nontrivial ground state for the scalar field exists and therefore the mass term in the Dirac equation can be interpreted, for example, as the electron mass.


1993 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 163-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.S. WESSON ◽  
J. PONCE DE LEON ◽  
P. LIM ◽  
H. LIU

We ask if it is possible to geometrize properties of matter such as the density and pressure in terms of a Kaluza-Klein extension of general relativity. We find that this is possible for at least three important classes of problems, where acceptable 4D properties of matter are recovered as the extra parts of a 5D geometry with “empty” field equations. This suggests to us that matter may be purely geometrical in origin.


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