1. Introduction
In this work, we will consider the extended objects instead of the point particles. It is well known that, as the extended objects, we have the solitons [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9] and strings [
10,
11,
12,
13]. In particular, in this review we will mainly use the hypersphere soliton model (HSM) [
4,
6,
9] and stringy photon model (SPM) [
13]. To be more specific, in the soliton models, we have the standard Skyrmion, which describes baryon static properties in
manifold [
1,
3,
5,
8]. This model was proposed by Skyrme in 1961 [
1]. In this paper we will consider the paper by Adkins, Nappi and Witten (ANW) [
3,
5], to compare with the HSM. Next, we will investigate the HSM, which is formulated on the hypersphere
instead of
[
4,
6,
9]. Exploiting the HSM, we will evaluate the baryon physical quantities, most of which are in good agreement with the corresponding experimental data.
In 1962, the electron was proposed as a charged conducting surface by Dirac [
14]. According to his proposal, the electron shape and size should pulsate. Here, the surface tension of the electron was supposed to prevent the electron from flying apart under the repulsive forces of the charge. Motivated by his idea, we will investigate pulsating baryons in the first-class formalism in the HSM [
4,
6], to evaluate the intrinsic frequencies of the baryons, baryon masses with the Weyl ordering correction (WOC) and axial coupling constant [
9].
On the other hand, as regards string theories, we have the critical higher-dimensional string theory [
10,
11,
12], and the recently proposed SPM defined in four-dimensional spacetime, which predicts the photon radius, and the photon intrinsic frequency comparable to the corresponding baryon intrinsic frequencies [
13]. In the SPM, we have exploited the open string, which performs both rotational and vibrational motions [
13]. Note that the rotational degrees of freedom of the photon have been investigated in the early universe [
15,
16].
In this review, we will exploit the HSM in the first-class Dirac Hamiltonian formalism to evaluate the physical quantities such as the baryon masses, magnetic moments, axial coupling constant, charge radii and baryon intrinsic frequencies. Next, in the SPM, we will predict the photon intrinsic frequency, which is shown to be comparable to the baryon intrinsic ones. To do this, we will exploit the Nambu–Goto string theory [
17,
18]. In the SPM, we will next introduce an open string action associated with the photon [
19]. Making use of the rotational and vibrational energies of the string, we will evaluate explicitly the photon intrinsic frequency with which, assuming that the photon size is given by the string radius in the SPM, we will predict the photon size.
In
Section 2, we will predict the baryon properties in the HSM. In
Section 3, we will evaluate the intrinsic frequencies of the baryons in the HSM. In
Section 4, we will exploit the SPM to predict the photon intrinsic frequency and photon size.
Section 5 includes conclusions.
2. Baryon Predictions in HSM
Now, we consider the baryon predictions in the first-class Hamiltonian formalism in the HSM. To do this, we introduce the Skyrmion Lagrangian density given by
where
U is an SU(2) chiral field, and
and
e are a pion decay constant and a dimensionless Skyrme parameter, respectively. In this work, we will treat
and
e as the model parameters. Here, the quartic term is necessary to stabilize the soliton in the baryon sector.
Next, we introduce the hyperspherical three metric on
of the form
where the ranges of the three angles are defined as
,
and
, and
(
) is a radius parameter of
. In the HSM, using the Skyrmion Lagrangian density in (
1), we obtain the soliton energy
E of the form
where
(
) is a dimensionless radius parameter and
B is topological baryon number, which is unity for a single soliton. Here,
is a profile function for hypersphere soliton, and satisfies
and
for unit topological baryon number. Note that the the profile function
f in the soliton energy
E in (
3) satisfies the first-order differential equations
to attain the BPS topological lower bound in the soliton energy [
2,
4,
5,
6,
7] given by
Moreover, in this case, we find the equation of motion for the hypersphere soliton [
4,
6]
One of the simplest solutions of (
6) is the identity map
in which case the soliton energy in (
3) can be rewritten as [
4,
6]
Note that, in order to obtain the BPS topological lower bound
in (
5) by exploiting the soliton energy
E in (
8) associated with the identity map
in (
7), we use the fixed value
where
Note also that the identity map in (
7) is a minimum energy solution for
, while for
, it is a saddle point [
20,
21].
Now, we briefly discuss the Dirac quantization of constrained systems [
1,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
22]. In the HSM, we have the second class constraints for the collective coordinates
(
) and the corresponding canonical momenta
conjugate to
of the form
Exploiting the Poisson bracket for
and
,
we obtain the Poisson algebra for the commutator of
and
[
8,
22]
Since this Poisson algebra does not vanish, we call the constraints and the second class.
In the HSM, spin and isospin states can be treated by collective coordinates
, corresponding to the spin and isospin collective rotation
SU(2) given by
. Exploiting the coordinates
, we obtain the Hamiltonian of the form
where
are canonical momenta conjugate to the collective coordinates
. Here, the soliton energy lower bound
is given by (
5) and moment of inertia
is given by
Note that the identity map
in (
7) with condition
, where
is given by (
9), is used to predict the physical quantities such as the moment of inertia
in (
14), baryon masses, charge radii, magnetic moments, axial coupling constant
and intrinsic pulsation frequencies
in the HSM. Note also that the hypersphere coordinates
are integrated out in (
3), and
in (
5) is a function of
or equivalently
and
e only. Similarly, after integrating out the hypersphere coordinates
, the physical quantities in (
14), (
16) and (
26)–(
30) and (
44) are formulated in terms of
and
e only.
After performing the canonical quantization in the second class formalism in the HSM, we now construct the Hamiltonian spectrum
where
I (=1/2, 3/2, …) are baryon isospin quantum numbers. Exploiting (
15), we find the nucleon mass
for
and delta baryon mass
for
, respectively [
6,
9]
Next, we formulate the first-class constraints
and
by adding the terms related with the Stückelberg fields
and
Here,
and
satisfy the following Poisson bracket
to produce the first-class Poisson algebra for the first-class constraints
and
Now, we investigate the operator ordering problem in the first-class Hamiltonian formalism. To do this, we construct the first-class Hamiltonian [
9]
Applying the first-class constrains in (
17) to (
20), we find
Next, we introduce the Weyl ordering procedure [
23] to obtain the Weyl-ordered operators
where we have used the quantum operator
. Inserting (
22) into (
21), we arrive at the Weyl-ordered first-class Hamiltonian operator
where
is the second class Hamiltonian operator given by
Here, the last three terms are the three-sphere Laplacian, given in terms of the collective coordinates and their derivatives to yield the eigenvalues
[
24]. Inserting the relation
, which is also given in (
15), and the identity
into (
23), we construct the Hamiltonian spectrum with the WOC in the first-class formalism [
9]
where
is the soliton energy BPS lower bound in (
5) and
is the moment of inertia in (
14). Comparing the canonical quantization spectrum result
in (
15) with
obtained via Dirac quantization with the WOC, the latter has the additional term
in (
25). This additional contribution originates from the first-class constraints in (
17). The nucleon mass
(
) and delta baryon mass
(
) are then given as follows [
9]
Next, we formulate the magnetic moments of the form [
9]
where
is now given by the nucleon mass with the WOC in (
26), given in the first-class formalism. Next, we similarly obtain the axial coupling constant [
9]
Now, we consider the charge radii. The electric and magnetic isovector mean square charge radii are given in the HSM, respectively [
6,
9]
where the subscripts
E and
M denote electric and magnetic charge radii, respectively, and
on the hypersphere
. Note that
is given by the product of three arc lengths:
,
and
and
is radius of hypersphere soliton. Moreover, we find the charge radii in terms of
[
6,
9]
Shuffling the above baryon and transition magnetic moments, we obtain the model independent sum rules in the HSM [
6]
Next, we choose
fm as an input parameter. We then have
and exploiting this fixed value of
and the phenomenological formulas in (
26)–(
30), we can proceed to calculate the physical quantities, as shown in
Table 1.
Now, we discuss the predictions in the soliton models. In
Table 1, Prediction I and II are given by Hong [
9] using the HSM, while Prediction III is given by ANW [
3], exploiting the standard Skyrmion model defined in
manifold. Here, the input parameters are indicated by *. In Prediction I, the two experimental values for
and
are used as input parameters. In Predictions II and III, we have exploited the same input parameters associated with
and
to compare their predictions effectively. Note that in Prediction II we have finite charge radii, while in Prediction III we have infinite charge radii.
Next, we discuss the evaluations of Prediction I. First, the six predicted values for , , , (in addition to the input parameters and ) are within about 1% of the corresponding experimental data. Second, the three predictions for , and are within about 6% of the experimental values. Third, the three predictions for , and are within about 10% of the experimental values.
Now we comment on the hypersurface
of the hypersphere
of radius parameter
, and the charge radius
in (
29). Exploiting the hyperspherical three metric in (
2), we find that
can be analyzed in terms of three arc length elements
,
and
, from which we find the three-dimensional hypersurface manifold with
. Note that
is the radial distance from the center of
to the hypersphere manifold
in
. In fact, inserting the value
in (
32) into the condition
in (
9), in the HSM we obtain the fixed radius parameter given by
. On the other hand, the charge radius
is the physical quantity expressed in (
29). Integrating over a relevant density on
corresponding to the integrand in (
29), we evaluate
, which is now independent of
, to yield a specific value of the electric isovector root mean square charge radius. The calculated charge radius then can be defined as the fixed radial distance to the point on a hypersurface manifold, which does not need to be located only on the compact manifold
of radius parameter
. This hypersurface manifold is now a submanifold in
, which is located at
fm, far from the center of
. Note that
denotes the radial distance, which is a geometrical invariant giving the same value both in
(for instance, in volume
, which contains the center of
and is described in terms of
at
) and in
. Next, the physical quantity
calculated in
(and in
) then can be compared with the corresponding experimental value, similar to the other physical quantities such as
and
.
Note that, as a toy model of soliton embedded in
, we consider a uniformly charged manifold
described in terms of
and a fixed radius parameter
where we have
. By integrating over a surface charge density residing on
, one can calculate the physical quantity such as the electric potential, at an arbitrary observation point, which does not need to be located only on the compact manifold
of radius parameter
. Next, since the
soliton of fixed radius parameter
is embedded in
, we manifestly define an arbitrary radial distance from the center of the compact manifold to an observation point, which is located in
. Here,
denotes foliation leaves [
25] of the spherical shell of radius parameter
(
) and
R is a manifold associated with radial distance. Note that the radial distance itself is a fixed geometrical invariant producing the same value both in
(for instance, on equatorial plane
, which contains the center of
and is delineated by
at
) and in
. The same mathematical logic can be applied to
soliton of fixed radius parameter
embedded in
, where
stands for the foliation leaves of the hyperspherical shell of radius parameter
(
) and
R is a manifold related with radial distance.
Finally, we have some comments on the Betti numbers associated with the manifold
in the HSM. First of all, the
p-th Betti number
is defined as the maximal number of
p-cycles on
M:
where
is the homology group of the manifold
M [
26,
27,
28]. For the case of
, we obtain
The non-vanishing Betti numbers related with are thus given by .
3. Intrinsic Frequencies of Baryons
Now, we investigate the intrinsic frequencies of baryons in the first-class Hamiltonian formalism in the HSM. To do this, in the HSM we construct the equivalent first-class Hamiltonian
as follows
to yield the corresponding Gauss law constraint algebra
Note that
and
. We then find the Hamiltonian spectrum for
which is equal to that for
in (
25), as expected. Next, we consider the equation of motion in Poisson bracket form
where the over-dot denotes the time derivative. Making use of the equation of motion in (
38), we obtain these two equations
where the first-class fields
and
are given as follows
In order to formulate the equations in (
39), we have used the following identities among the physical fields
Applying the equation of motion algorithm in (
38) to
, we find
to yield the equation of motion for a simple harmonic oscillator
where
is the intrinsic frequency of pulsating baryon with isospin quantum number
I given by
Making use of the formula for
in (
44) for the nucleon
N and the delta baryon
, we obtain predictions of intrinsic frequencies
and
of the baryons given in
Table 2. Note that we find the identity
.
Finally, it seems appropriate to comment on the gauge fixing problem within the first-class constraints of the Dirac Hamiltonian formalism. In order to investigate the gauge fixing of the first-class Hamiltonian
in (
35), we introduce two canonical sets of ghost and anti-ghost fields together with auxiliary fields
,
,
,
, which satisfy the super-Poisson algebra,
. Here, the super-Poisson bracket is defined as
, where
denotes the number of fermions, called the ghost number, in
A and the subscript
r and
l denotes right and left derivatives, respectively. The BRST charge for the first-class constraint algebra related with
is then given by
We choose the unitary gauge
by selecting the fermionic gauge fixing function
:
. Exploiting the BRST charge
Q in (
45), we find the BRST transformation rule defined as
for a physical field
FNote that
is not BRST invariant, which implies that
. Next, we obtain the gauge-fixed Hamiltonian
which is now invariant under the BRST transformation rule in (
47), namely
. Note that the BRST charge
Q in (
45) is nilpotent so that we can have
for a physical field
F. Note also that
is the BRST invariant Hamiltonian including the fermionic gauge-fixing function
.
4. SPM Predictions
In this section, we will predict the physical quantities such as the photon intrinsic frequency and photon size in the SPM [
13]. To do this, we will exploit the Nambu–Goto string action [
17,
18] and its extended rotating bosonic string model in
dimensions of spacetime [
29]. Note that in the
dimension open string theory, which will be briefly discussed below, it is well known that there exists the vector boson with 24 independent polarizations [
10,
11], corresponding to the photon in the stringy photon model defined in the
dimensions of spacetime [
13] considered in this paper.
Before we construct the SPM, we pedagogically summarize a mathematical formalism for the Nambu–Goto open string, which is related with a photon. In order to define the action on a curved manifold, we introduce
, which is a
D dimensional spacetime manifold
M associated with the metric
. Given
, we can have a unique covariant derivative
satisfying [
30]
We parameterize an open string by two world sheet coordinates
and
, and then we have the corresponding vector fields
and
. The Nambu–Goto string action is now given by [
17,
18]
where the coordinates
and
have ranges
and
, respectively, and
Here, the string tension
is defined by
, with
being the universal slope of the linear Regge trajectories [
31].
We perform an infinitesimal variation of the world sheets
traced by the open string during its evolution in order to find the string geodesic equation from the least action principle. Here, we impose the restriction that the length of the string is
independent. We introduce the deviation vector
, which represents the displacement to an infinitesimally nearby world sheet, and we consider
, which denotes the three-dimensional submanifold spanned by the world sheets
. We then may choose
,
and
as coordinates of
to yield the commutator relations
Now, we find the first variation as follows
where the world sheet currents associated with
and
directions are respectively given by [
31],
Using the endpoint conditions
and
we have the string geodesic equation
and constraint identities [
31]
For more details of the string theory and deviation vector on the curved manifold, see the references [
15,
16,
30].
Next, we consider the open rotating string in the (3 + 1) dimensional flat spacetime and delineate the string in terms of the coordinates
The Nambu–Goto string action in (
50) is then described in terms of
given by
where the overdot and prime denote derivatives with respect to
and
, respectively. In this paper, we use the metric signature
.
Inserting (
59) into (
60), we find
Moreover, we proceed to construct the world sheet currents
Now, exploiting (
57), we obtain the string equation of motion
and the string boundary condition
Inserting
and
in (
62) into the string equation of motion in (
63), we find
Exploiting the boundary conditions in (
64), we also obtain at
and
Next, in order to describe an open string, which is rotating in the
plane and residing on the string center of mass, we take an ansatz [
29]
Here, we propose that
and
represent respectively the diameter and angular velocity of the photon with solid spherical shape, which is delineated by the open string. Note that
denotes the center of the diameter of the string. More specifically,
is located in the center of the solid sphere, which describes the photon. The first boundary condition in (
66) is trivially satisfied and the second one yields
We then obtain
, which fulfills the above condition in (
68)
Note that the photon has a finite size, which is filled with mass. Using the photon configuration in (
67) and (
69) together with (
62), we find the rotational energy of the photon
where we have included
ℏ factor explicitly, and the value of
is given by
[
31].
Next, we evaluate the photon intrinsic frequency and size in the SPM. To do this, we calculate the vibrational energy of the photon by introducing the string coordinate configurations
Exploiting the coordinates in (
71), we expand the string Lagrangian density
where the subscript 0 denotes that the terms in (
72) are evaluated by using the coordinates in (
67). The ellipsis stands for the higher derivative terms. Here, the first term is a constant given by
. The first derivative terms vanish after exploiting the string equation of motion in (
63). Next, in order to obtain the vibration energy of the photon, we define coordinates
, which co-rotates with the string itself
After some algebra, we obtain the Lagrangian density associated with the coordinates
The equations of motion for the directions
and
are then given by
Now, the photon is assumed to be in the ground state of the string energy spectrum. From (
75), we find the eigenfunctions for the ground states
Here, and are arbitrary phase constants, which are irrelevant to the physics arguments of interest.
It seems appropriate to address comments on the photon vibration modes. The transverse mode
in (
76) is independent of the string coordinate
, so that the photon can tremble back and forth with a constant amplitude, while the longitudinal mode
in (
77) possesses sinusoidal dependence on
. Here, note that
does not move at the center of the string, namely at
, independent of
and the other parts of the string oscillate with the frequency
. As for the transverse mode
, we can find that any value for
satisfies the Euler–Lagrange equation for
obtained from the Lagrangian density in (
74). Up to now, we have considered a single massive photon with the solid sphere shape, whose diameter is delineated in terms of the length of the open string. The photon thus has a disk-like cross section on which the coordinates
and
reside. Note that, similar to the phonon associated with massive particle lattice vibrations, the photon is massive so that we can have three polarization directions: two transverse directions, as in the massless photon case, and an additional longitudinal one. Keeping this argument in mind, we find that there exist two transverse modes
and
associated with the photon vibrations on
-
cross sectional disk, in addition to one longitudinal mode
. We thus have the transverse mode in
direction to yield the eigenfunction for the ground state, with an arbitrary phase constant
similar to
and
discussed above,
Note that, as in the case of massless photons,
mode oscillates with the same frequency
that
mode does. Note also that the above solutions
satisfy their endpoint conditions at
and
The energy eigenvalues in the ground states in (
76)–(
78) are then given by
Exploiting the energies in (
80), we arrive at the vibrational energy of the open string ground state
In the SPM, the classical energy of the string is given by
in (
70), while the corresponding quantum mechanical energy is given by
in (
81). Now, we define the total energy of the string configuration as a function of
Note that we have already removed the translational degree of freedom, by considering the string observer residing on the photon center of mass in the SPM. Variating the energy
E with respect to
, we find the minimum value condition for
E at
to yield the intrinsic frequency
for the photon [
13]
which is greater than the baryon intrinsic frequencies, as shown in
Table 2. Note that we have related the HSM and SPM, in terms of the intrinsic frequencies of the baryons and photon, both of which are the extended objects. Next, we consider the photon radius as a half of the open string length. Exploiting the photon intrinsic frequency
in (
84), we obtain the photon radius [
13]
which is 21% of the proton magnetic charge radius
as shown in
Table 1.
Next, even though up to now we have investigated the stringy photon model in
dimensional spacetime [
13], we parenthetically discuss the bosonic string theory in the critical dimension
. In the light-cone gauge quantization in bosonic string theory, the so-called anomaly associated with the commutator of Lorentz generators has been canceled in
critical dimensions and with the condition
[
10,
11], where
R is the Ramanujan evaluation [
32] for the infinite sum
Now, we investigate the Ramanujan evaluation procedure for
R. To accomplish this, we manipulate the difference
to yield
. Here, we have used the identity
, which yields
at
. Following the above relation
, we finally obtain the Ramanujan evaluation
in (
86). Next, exploiting the Ramanujan evaluation in (
86), we can obtain the relation
which has been used in the
superstring theory [
11,
13]. Note that the stringy photon model has been described in
dimensional spacetime, without resorting to (
86) and (
87).