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Dirac-K\"{a}hler field, spinor technique, and 2-potential approach to electrodynamics with two charges

Mathematical Physics 2008-08-06 v1 math.MP

Abstract

From the 16-component Dirac-K\"{a}hler field theory, spinor equations for two types of massless vector photon fields with different parities have been derived. Their equivalent tensor equations in terms of the strength tensor FabF_{ab} and respective 4-vector AbA_{b} and 4-pseudovector A~b\tilde{A}_{b} depending on intrinsic photon parity are derived; they include additional sources, electric 4-vector jbj_{b} and magnetic 4-pseudovector j~b\tilde{j}_{b}. The theories of two types of photon fields are explicitly uncoupled, their linear combination through summing or subtracting results in Maxwell electrodynamics with electric and magnetic charges in 2-potential approach. So the problem of existence of magnetic charge can be understood as a super selection rule for different photon fields in intrinsic parity. The whole analysis is extended straightforwardly to a curved space-time background. In the frames of that extended Maxwell theory, the known electromagnetic duality is described as a linear transformation mixing the field variables referred to photons with different parities. That extended dual transformation concerns both strength tensors and 4-potentials Ab,A~bA_{b}, \tilde{A}_{b}.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0629,
  title  = {Dirac-K\"{a}hler field, spinor technique, and 2-potential approach to electrodynamics with two charges},
  author = {V. M. Red'kov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0629},
  year   = {2008}
}

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22 pages, Report to XV Annual Seminar NPCS - 2008, May 22-25, 2008, Minsk, Belarus

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