International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 543894, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/543894
Research Article

Fine Structure Constant, Domain Walls, and Generalized Uncertainty Principle in the Universe

1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
2INFN-Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy

Received 1 December 2010; Accepted 13 March 2011

Academic Editor: Charles E. Chidume

Copyright © 2011 Luigi Tedesco. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We study the corrections to the fine structure constant from the generalized uncertainty principle in the spacetime of a domain wall. We also calculate the corrections to the standard formula to the energy of the electron in the hydrogen atom to the ground state, in the case of spacetime of a domain wall and generalized uncertainty principle. The results generalize the cases known in literature.