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A mechanism to generate mass: the case of fermions

General Physics 2012-02-03 v2

Abstract

In a recent paper \cite{novello} we have presented a mechanism to generate mass from gravitational interaction, based on the Mach principle, according to which the inertia of a body is a property of matter as well as of the background provided by the rest-of-the-universe. In \cite{novello} we realized such an idea for a scalar field treating the rest-of-the-universe in its vacuum state. In the present paper we describe a similar mechanism for fermions.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5126,
  title  = {A mechanism to generate mass: the case of fermions},
  author = {M. Novello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5126},
  year   = {2012}
}