Dirac-K\"{a}hler field, spinor technique, and 2-potential approach to electrodynamics with two charges
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 and respective 4-vector and 4-pseudovector depending on intrinsic photon parity are derived; they include additional sources, electric 4-vector and magnetic 4-pseudovector . 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 .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
22 pages, Report to XV Annual Seminar NPCS - 2008, May 22-25, 2008, Minsk, Belarus