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Phys. Rev. 114, 383–388 (1959)

Elementary Particles in a Finite World Geometry

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H. R. Coish
Mathematical Physics Department, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Received 20 October 1958; published in the issue dated April 1959

To account for the elementary particles a new physical geometry may be needed. A previous suggestion that this geometry may be finite is followed up by determining the representations of the orthogonal (Lorentzlike) group. Because of the existence of a new type of orthogonality-preserving transformation some of the representations are multiple-valued. A change of value is identified with a gauge transformation and electric charge is recognized as a certain number determining the many-valuedness of the representation. This charge number reverses sign under space inversion. The charged pions and sigma particles are correlated with some of the new representations.

© 1959 The American Physical Society

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