Research Article
Motion of Charged Spinning Particles in a Unified Field
M. I. Wanas
1,2
and Mona M. Kamal
2,3
1
Astronomy Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt
2
Egyptian Relativity Group (ERG), Cairo, Egypt
3
Mathematics Department, Faculty of Girls, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Correspondence should be addressed to M. I. Wanas; wanas@scu.eg
Received 15 May 2021; Accepted 11 October 2021; Published 25 November 2021
Academic Editor: Shi Hai Dong
Copyright © 2021 M. I. Wanas and Mona M. Kamal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work
is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP
3
.
Using a geometry wider than Riemannian one, the parameterized absolute parallelism (PAP) geometry, we derived a new curve
containing two parameters. In the context of the geometrization philosophy, this new curve can be used as a trajectory of
charged spinning test particle in any unified field theory constructed in the PAP space. We show that imposing certain
conditions on the two parameters, the new curve can be reduced to a geodesic curve giving the motion of a scalar test particle
or/and a modified geodesic giving the motion of neutral spinning test particle in a gravitational field. The new method used for
derivation, the Bazanski method, shows a new feature in the new curve equation. This feature is that the equation contains the
electromagnetic potential term together with the Lorentz term. We show the importance of this feature in physical applications.
1. Introduction
According to the geometrization philosophy, the curve in a
certain geometry represents the equation of motion of a the-
ory which constructed in this geometry. Together with the
field equations of any theory, we need the equation of motion
which characterizes the theory used. In general relativity,
geodesic curve is considered as an equation of motion of a
scalar test particle moving in a gravitational field.
Geodesic equation can be derived using the Lagrangian
(cf. [1]):
L
1
=
def :
g
μν
_ x
μ
_ x
ν
, ð1Þ
where g
μν
is the metric tensor and _ x
μ
ð=
def :
dx
μ
/dsÞ is the
unit tangent vector to the curve. Euler-Lagrange equation
is given by the following (cf. [2]):
d
ds
∂L
1
∂ _ x
γ
−
∂L
1
∂x
γ
= 0, ð2Þ
such that s is the scalar parameter varying along the curve.
Using Lagrangian (Equation (1)) and Equation (2), we get
the following:
€ x
α
+
α
μν
()
_ x
μ
_ x
ν
= 0, ð3Þ
where
α
μν
()
is the coefficient of Levi-Civita linear connec-
tion which is defined as follows:
α
μν
()
=
def :
1
2
g
ασ
g
μσ,ν
+ g
νσ,μ
− g
μν,σ
: ð4Þ
Equation (3) is the curve equation of the Riemannian
geometry.
The Lagrangian used for deriving the equation of motion
of a charged particle moving in the presence of electromag-
netic field is defined by the following (cf. [3]):
L
2
=
def :
g
μν
V
μ
+ βA
μ
ð ÞV
ν
, ð5Þ
where A
μ
is a vector field and β is a conversion parameter
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Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2021, Article ID 4970469, 6 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/4970469