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Clifford Space as the Arena for Physics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-07-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A new theory is considered according to which extended objects in nn-dimensional space are described in terms of multivector coordinates which are interpreted as generalizing the concept of centre of mass coordinates. While the usual centre of mass is a point, by generalizing the latter concept, we associate with every extended object a set of rr-loops, r=0,1,...,n1r=0,1,..., n-1, enclosing oriented (r+1)(r+1)-dimensional surfaces represented by Clifford numbers called (r+1)(r+1)-vectors or multivectors. Superpositions of multivectors are called polyvectors or Clifford aggregates and they are elements of Clifford algebra. The set of all possible polyvectors forms a manifold, called CC-space. We assume that the arena in which physics takes place is in fact not Minkowski space, but CC-space. This has many far reaching physical implications, some of which are discussed in this paper. The most notable is the finding that although we start from the constrained relativity in CC-space we arrive at the unconstrained Stueckelberg relativistic dynamics in Minkowski space which is a subspace of CC-space.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0211085,
  title  = {Clifford Space as the Arena for Physics},
  author = {Matej Pavsic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0211085},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

30 pages, 4 figures; Talk presented at 3rd Biennial Conference of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics (IARD), Washington DC, 26-26 June 2002

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