On Pauli's invention of non-abelian Kaluza-Klein Theory in 1953

2000/12/15 by Norbert Straumann, N. Straumann, Straumann, N. · 1 citation
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0012054

4 pages, Ninth Marcel Grossmann Proceedings

arxiv created 2000/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

There are documents which show that Wolfgang Pauli developed in 1953 the first consistent generalization of the five-dimensional theory of Kaluza, Klein, Fock and others to a higher dimensional internal space. Because he saw no way to give masses to the gauge bosons, he refrained from publishing his results formally.

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