Published April 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Estimating the experimental value of the electromagnetic fine structure constant α-bar 0=1/137.036 using the Leech lattice in conjunction with the monster group and Spher's kissing number in 24 dimensions

  • 1. King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Description

We start with various observations regarding the kissing number in the 24-dimensional Leech lattice Nτ(24)=196560 as well as the j-function coefficient b=196884 and the minimal dimension in which the monster group can act Dm=196883. Subsequently based on the previous results and earlier numerical experiments, we use a quibic potential to derive a quadratic equationx2+12820x-(Nτ(24)/10)=0where 128=spin 7=(2)7, 10=D(10) and Nτ(24)=196560 are the spin representation, the super string dimension and the Leech kissing number, respectively. It is found that the only positive solution of this equation isx1=137.036=α-bar 0which is the accurate experimental value of inverse of the electromagnetic fine structure constant. This remarkable result is interpreted in terms of the connection between the Moonshine conjecture and string theory as well as the E-infinity relation between the kissing number in 10 dimensions Kτ(10)=336 and the degrees of freedom of Klein's modular space dim Γ(7)=336

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2006.09.014;
PII
S0960-0779(06)00874-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
32
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 383-387
ISSN
0960-0779

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.