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Representations in Grassmann space and fermion degrees of freedom

General Physics 2019-01-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In Ref. [arXiv:1802.05554v3] one of the authors (N.S.M.B.) studies the second quantization of fermions with integer spin while describing the internal degrees of freedom of fermions in Grassmann space. In this contribution we study the representations in Grassmann space of the groups SO(5,1)SO(5,1), SO(3,1)SO(3,1), SU(3)×U(1)SU(3) \times U(1), and SO(4)SO(4), which are of particular interest as the subgroups of the group SO(13,1)SO(13,1). The second quantized integer spin fermions, appearing in Grassmann space, not observed so far, could be an alternative choice to the half integer spin fermions, appearing in Clifford space. The spin-charge-family theory, using two kinds of Clifford operators --- γa\gamma^a and γ~a\tilde{\gamma}^a --- for the description of spins and charges (first) and family quantum numbers (second), offers the explanation for not only the appearance of families but also for all the properties of quarks and leptons, the gauge fields, scalar fields and others. In both cases the gauge fields in d(13+1)d \ge(13+1) --- the spin connections ωabα\omega_{ab \alpha} (of the two kinds in Clifford case and of one kind in Grassmann case) and the vielbeins fααf^{\alpha}{}_{\alpha} --- determine in d=(3+1)d=(3+1) scalars, those with the space index α=(5,6,,d)\alpha=(5,6,\cdots,d), and gauge fields, those with the space index α=(0,1,2,3)\alpha=(0,1,2,3). While states of the Lorentz group and all its subgroups (in any dimension) are in Clifford space in the fundamental representations of the groups, with the family degrees of freedom included, states in Grassmann space manifest with respect to the Lorentz group adjoint representations, allowing no families.

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@article{arxiv.1805.06318,
  title  = {Representations in Grassmann space and fermion degrees of freedom},
  author = {D. Lukman and N. S. Mankoc Borstnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06318},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

31 pages, 3 figures, This contribution developed during the discussions at the $20^{\rm{th}}$ and $21^{\rm{st}}$ Workshop "What Comes Beyond the Standard Models", Bled 2017, 2018. Appeared in the Proceedings to the 21st Bled Workshop, DMFA Ljubljana, December 2018. Also available at http://bsm.fmf.uni-lj.si/bled2018bsm/talks/BledVol19No2proc.pdf, pp. 335--358