A Mechanism for the Induction of Symmetries Among the Strong Interactions

Abstract

A model is constructed in which there are $N$ equally massive vector mesons, which are self-consistent bound states of pairs of these same vector mesons. It is shown that $N$ must be equal to the number of parameters of some compact, semisimple Lie group, and that the renormalized coupling constants must be proportional to the structure constants of the group.