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Phys. Rev. D 12, 3789–3792 (1975)

Unified geometry of internal space with space-time

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Y. M. Cho
The Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Pong Soo Jang
Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Received 23 June 1975; published in the issue dated 15 December 1975

The unified theory of gravitation with gauge fields proposed earlier is shown to be a (4+n)-dimensional Einstein theory with n linearly independent complete spacelike Killing vector fields which span an n-dimensional metric submanifold and form a closed Lie algebra. In this picture the internal space is combined with space-time and the internal symmetry becomes a symmetry of the metric of the (4+n)-dimensional combined space. The 4-dimensional space-time appears as the quotient space of the (4+n)-dimensional enlarged space by the equivalence relation of the group of motions of the n Killing vector fields.

© 1975 The American Physical Society

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