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Hamiltonian formulation of the 5-D Kaluza-Klein model and test-particle motion

Valentino Lacquaniti, Giovanni Montani

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0612118

Abstract

We examine the ADM reformulation of the 5-D KK model: the dimensional reduction is provided to commute with the ADM splitting and we show how the time component of the gauge vector is given by combination of the Lagrangian multipliers for the 5-D gravitational field. We consider 5D particles motion and after dimensional reduction the definition of charge is recovered within electrodynamic coupling. A time-varying fine structure constant is recognized because an extra scalar field is present in the 4-D theory.

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