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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES
Duality of two-dimensional field theory and four-dimensional electrodynamics leading to a finite value of the bare charge
V. I. Ritus Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
We dicuss the holographic duality consisting in the functional coincidence of the spectra of the mean number of photons (or scalar quanta) emitted by a point-like electric (scalar) charge in
$(3 + 1)$-space with the spectra of the mean number of pairs of scalar (spinor) quanta emitted by a point mirror in
$(1 + 1)$-space. Being functions of two variables and functionals of the common trajectory of the charge and the mirror, the
spectra differ only by the factor
$e^{2}/\hbar c$ (in Heaviside units). The requirement
$e^{2}/\hbar c$ =1 leads to unique values of the point-like charge and its fine structure constant,
$e_{0} = \pm \sqrt {\hbar c}$,
$\alpha_{0} = 1/4 \pi$, all their properties being as stated by Gell-Mann and Low for a finite bare charge. This requirement follows from the holographic bare charge quantization principle we propose here, according to which the charge and mirror radiations respectively located in four-dimensional space and on its internal two-dimensional surface must have identically coincident spectra. The duality is due to the integral connection of the causal Green's functions for
$(3 + 1)$- and
$(1 + 1)$-spaces and to connections of the current and charge densities in
$(3 + 1)$-space with the scalar products of scalar and spinor massless fields in
$(1 + 1)$-space. We discuss the closeness of the values of the point-like bare charge
$e_{0} = \sqrt {\hbar c}$, the ‘charges’
$e_\mathrm{B} = 1.077 \sqrt {\hbar c}$ and
$e_\mathrm{L} = 1.073 \sqrt {\hbar c}$ characterizing the shifts
$e^{2}_\mathrm{B,L} /8\pi a$ of the energy of zero-point electromagnetic oscillations in the vacuum by neutral ideally conducting surfaces of a sphere of radius
$a$ and a cube of side 2
$a$, and the electron charge
$e$ times
$\sqrt {4\pi}$. The approximate equality
$e_\mathrm{L} \approx \sqrt {4 \pi} e$ means that
$\alpha_{0} \alpha_\mathrm{L} \approx \alpha$ is the fine structure constant.
PACS:
03.70.+k,
12.20.-m,
41.60.-m Received: July 27, 2012Revised: April 30, 2013Accepted:
May 7, 2013
DOI:
10.3367/UFNr.0183.201306c.0591