Kaluza-Klein charge quantization

ID: kaluza-klein-charge-quantization

For a periodic scalar on a circle of circumference , its Fourier series has modes . In the fixed-radius metric , the five-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation becomes with . Thus the geometric gauge charge is quantized in units in units , or the conserved compact momentum in units . A rescaling to a canonically normalized electromagnetic potential changes the corresponding numerical unit of physical electric charge.

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