CLASSICAL ELEMENTARY-PARTICLES IN GENERAL-RELATIVITY

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 = -rho 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.