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Elementary particles, regarded as the constituents of quarks and leptons, are described classically in the framework of the general relativity theory. There are neutral particles and particles having charges±1/3e. They are taken to be spherically symmetric and to have mass density, pressure, and (if charged) charge density. They are characterized by an equation of state P=−ρ suggested by earlier work on cosmology. The neutral particle has a very simple structure. In the case of the charged particle there is one outstanding model described by a simple analytic solution of the field equations.
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Israelit, M., Rosen, N. Classical elementary particles in general relativity. Found Phys 21, 1237–1247 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00734266
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00734266