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The nilpotent version of the Dirac equation is applied to the baryon wavefunction, the strong interaction potential, electroweak mixing, and Dirac and Klein-Gordon propagators. The results are used to interpret a quaternion-vector model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Rowlands , J. P. Cullerne

It is well known that the third-order Lorentz-Dirac equation admits runaway solutions wherein the energy of the particle grows without limit, even when there is no external force. These solutions can be denied simply on physical grounds,…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Ibison , Harold E. Puthoff

Resonance plays critical roles in the formation of many physical phenomena, and many techniques have been developed for the exploration of resonance. In a recent letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 062502 (2016)], we proposed a new method for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Zhi Fang , Min Shi , Jian-You Guo , Zhong-Ming Niu , Haozhao Liang , Shi-Sheng Zhang

We investigate $L^1\to L^\infty$ dispersive estimates for the Dirac equation with a potential in four spatial dimensions. We classify the structure of the obstructions at the thresholds as being composed of an at most two dimensional space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 William R. Green , Connor Lane , Benjamin Lyons

Many quantum theories of gravity propose Lorentz violating dispersion relations of the form $\omega = |k|\, f(|k|/M)$, with recovery of approximate Lorentz invariance at energy scales much below $M$. We show that a quantum field with this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 Viqar Husain , Jorma Louko

Resonance plays critical roles in the formation of many physical phenomena, and several methods have been developed for the exploration of resonance. In this work, we propose a new scheme for resonance by solving the Dirac equation in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Niu Li , Min Shi , Jian-You Guo , Zhong-Ming Niu , Haozhao Liang

Tensor, matrix and quaternion formulations of Dirac-K\"ahler equation for massive and massless fields are considered. The equation matrices obtained are simple linear combinations of matrix elements in the 16-dimensional space. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Kruglov

A comprehensive analysis of the morphology of the solution space for a special type of quadratic quaternion equation is presented. This equation, which arises in a surface construction problem, incorporates linear terms in a quaternion…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Rida T. Farouki , Graziano Gentili , Carlotta Giannelli , Alessandra Sestini , Caterina Stoppato

We formulate the Lorentz-Dirac equation in the plane wave and in the Dirac delta-function pulse. The discussion on the relation of the Dirac delta-function to the ultrashort laser pulse is involved.

General Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Miroslav Pardy

By analyzing the Dirac equation with static electric and magnetic fields it is shown that Dirac's theory is nothing but a generalized one-particle quantum theory compatible with the special theory of relativity. This equation describes a…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 N. L. Chuprikov

This paper establishes new upper bounds for the right eigenvalues of monic matrix polynomials over the quaternion division algebra. The noncommutative nature of quaternion multiplication presents fundamental challenges in eigenvalue…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Ovaisa Jan , Idrees Qasim

We solve the Dirac equation in one space dimension for the case of a linear, Lorentz-scalar potential. This extends earlier work of Bhalerao and Ram [Am. J. Phys. 69 (7), 817-818 (2001)] by eliminating unnecessary constraints. The spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 John R. Hiller

The novel forms of the split octonionic Dirac equation and its corresponding Lagrangian are derived using symbolic computing techniques.

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Merab Gogberashvili , Alexandre Gurchumelia

Recently, we have demonstrated that some subsolutions of the free Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau and the Dirac equations obey the same Dirac equation with some built-in projection operators. In the present paper we study the Dirac equation in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Andrzej Okninski

We formulate general conditions on $3\times 3$ neutrino mass matrices under which a degenerate pair of neutrinos at a high scale would split at low scale by radiative corrections involving only the standard model fields. This generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anjan S. Joshipura , Saurabh D. Rindani

When utilizing a cluster decomposible relativistic scattering formalism, it is most convenient that the covariant field equations take on a linear form with respect to the energy and momentum dispersion on the fields in the manner given by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Lindesay

The spectral problem of the Dirac equation in an external quadratic vector potential is considered using the methods of the perturbation theory. The problem is singular and the perturbation series is asymptotic, so that the methods for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Giachetti , V. Grecchi

We construct new relativistic linear differential equation in $d$ dimensions generalizing Dirac equation by employing the Clifford algebra of the cubic polynomial associated to Klein-Gordon operator multiplied by the mass parameter. Unlike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Michel Rausch de Traubenberg

We study mixing of the Dirac neutrinos in the residual symmetries approach. The key difference from the Majorana case is that the Dirac mass matrix may have larger symmetries: $G_\nu=\mathbf{Z}_{n}$ with $n\geq3$. The symmetry group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Arman Esmaili , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We provide sufficient conditions for systems of polynomial equations over general (real or complex) algebras to have a solution. This generalizes known results on quaternions, octonions and matrix algebras. We also generalize the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Maximilian Illmer , Tim Netzer