Charged particles, magnetic monopoles, and topology in Einstein's unified field theory

Journal Article · Wed Jul 15 04:00:00 EDT 1981 · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.24.327· OSTI ID:6454302

Johnson, C R

We report on recent progress in understanding the structure of charged particles in Einstein's theory of the nonsymmetric field. If one makes reasonable assumptions concerning the asymptotic behavior of the field far from a charged particle, assumptions which seem to be demanded by empirical evidence, one finds that the global topologies of certain spatial regions which contain the charged particle must be non-Euclidean if the field over those regions is to be nonsingular. One also finds under the same assumptions that the possibility that all charged particles possess a magnetic-monopole moment proportional to their charge cannot be ruled out. In an approximation which should be valid over macroscopic interaction distances it is found that such particles interact among themselves as if they had no magnetic-monopole moments. We do not yet know the effect of such magnetic moments on microscopic interactions.

• Research Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
• OSTI ID: 6454302
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 24:2; ISSN PRVDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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645400* -- High Energy Physics-- Field Theory
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CHARGED PARTICLES
EINSTEIN-SCHROEDINGER THEORY
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FIELD THEORIES
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
MATHEMATICS
METRICS
MINKOWSKI SPACE
MONOPOLES
POSTULATED PARTICLES
SPACE
SPACE-TIME
TENSOR FORCES
TOPOLOGY