2007/05/15 by M. A. S. Cruz, F. Dahia, C. Romero · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Einstein #Geometry #Kaluza–Klein theory #Mathematical physics #Maxwell's equations #Physics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Riemannian geometry #Space (punctuation) #Theoretical physics #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732308023839
published in Modern Physics Letters A 23(03), 197-203 (World Scientific) · 8 pages. Accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A
arxiv created 2007/05/15 · openalex publication_date 2008/01/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In a particular variant of Kaluza–Klein theory, the so-called induced-matter theory (IMT), it is shown that any configuration of matter may be geometrically induced from a five-dimensional vacuum space. By using a similar approach we show that any distribution of charges and currents may also be induced from a five-dimensional space. Although in the case of IMT the geometry is Riemannian and the fundamental equations are the five-dimensional Einstein equations in vacuum, here we consider a Minkowskian geometry and five-dimensional Maxwell equations in vacuum.