The fine structure constant at the unification scale equal to 1/4pi?

1999/04/23 by Antonio Fernández Rañada, Antonio F. Ranada, Ranada, Antonio F.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9904158

6 pages, no figures, 9 references

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Abstract

A recently proposed topological mechanism for the quantization of the charge gives the value e₀=√(ℏ c) for both the fundamental electric and magnetic charges. It is argued that the corresponding fine structure constant α₀=1/4pi could be interpreted as its value at the unification scale.

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