The Nakano-Nishijima-Gell-Mann Formula From Discrete Galois Fields

Abstract

The well known Nakano-Nishijima-Gell-Mann (NNG) formula relates certain quantum numbers of elementary particles to their charge number. This equation, which phenomenologically introduces the quantum numbers $I_z$ (isospin), $S$ (strangeness), etc., is constructed using group theory with real numbers $\mathbb{R}$. But, using a discrete Galois field ${\mathbb{F}}_p$ instead of $\mathbb{R}$ and assuring the fundamental invariance laws such as unitarity, Lorentz invariance, and gauge invariance, we derive the NNG formula deductively from Meson (two quarks) and Baryon (three quarks) representations in a unified way. Moreover, we show that quark confinement ascribes to the inevitable fractionality caused by coprimeness between half-integer (1/2) of isospin and number of composite particles (e.g. three).

arXiv comment14 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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