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The Dirac equation for massive free electrically neutral spin 1/2 particles in a gravitation field is considered. The secondary quantization procedure is applied to it and the Hilbert space of multiparticle quantum states is constructed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

In these notes, we present an alternative version of discrete Dirac mechanics using Dirac structures. We first establish a notion of 'continuous Dirac system' and then propose a definition of discrete Dirac system, proving that it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Matías I. Caruso , Javier Fernández , Cora Tori , Marcela Zuccalli

The Dirac wave function in a curved spacetime is usually defined as a quadruplet of scalar fields. It can alternatively be defined as a four-vector field. We describe these two representations in a common geometrical framework and we prove…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

For the description of space-time fermions, Dirac-K\"ahler fields (inhomogeneous differential forms) provide an interesting alternative to the Dirac spinor fields. In this paper we develop a similar concept within the symplectic geometry of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Reuter

The quantum mechanical description of phase remains a fundamental challenge, with theoretical efforts tracing from the early works of London and Dirac to discrete formalisms. In this work, we extend the action-angle formalism to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 N. Korneev , I. Ramos-Prieto , H. M. Moya-Cessa

We construct spectral triples and, in particular, Dirac operators, for the algebra of continuous functions on certain compact metric spaces. The triples are countable sums of triples where each summand is based on a curve in the space.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-19 Erik Christensen , Cristina Ivan , Michel L. Lapidus

Using the language of the Geometric Algebra, we recast the massive Dirac bispinor as a set of Lorentz scalar, vector, bivector, pseudovector, and pseudoscalar fields that obey a generalized form of Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Anastasios Y. Papaioannou

We consider introducing the Dirac sea in a quantum cellular automata model of fermions in discrete spacetime which approximates the Dirac equation in the continuum limit. However, if we attempt to fill up the `negative' energy states, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Chaitanya Gupta , Anthony J. Short

Exact solutions of the Dirac equation, a system of four partial differential equations, are rare. The vast majority of them are for highly symmetric stationary systems. Moreover, only a handful of solutions for time dependent dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Andre G. Campos , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We present a semiclassical analysis for Dirac fields on an arbitrary spacetime background and in the presence of a fixed electromagnetic field. Our approach is based on a Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, and the results are analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Marius A. Oancea , Achal Kumar

Renormalization is one of the basic notions of condensed matter physics. Based on the concept of renormalization, the Landau's {\em Fermi liquid} theory has been able to explain, why despite the presence of Coulomb interactions, the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-06 S. A. Jafari

A new geometric approach to systems with boundary energy flow is developed using infinite-dimensional Dirac structures within the Lagrangian formalism. This framework satisfies a list of consistency criteria with the geometric setting of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura

We derive the Weyl anomaly in two dimensional space-time by considering the Dirac sea regularized some negatively counted formally bosonic extra species.In fact we calculate the trace of the energy-momentum tensor of the Dirac sea in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-28 Y. Habara , H. B. Nielsen , M. Ninomiya

We describe a construction of fibrewise inner products on the cotangent bundle of the smooth free loop space of a Riemannian manifold. Using this inner product, we construct an operator over the loop space of a string manifold which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Stacey

We give finiteness results and some classifications up to diffeomorphism of minimal strong symplectic fillings of Seifert fibered spaces over S^2 satisfying certain conditions, with a fixed natural contact structure. In some cases we can…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Laura Starkston

We consider Dirac equations on even dimensional Lorentzian manifolds of bounded geometry with a spin structure. For the associated free quantum field theory, we construct pure Hadamard states using global pseudodifferential calculus on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Christian Gérard , Theo Stoskopf

Topological semimetals, representing a new topological phase that lacks a full bandgap in bulk states and exhibiting nontrivial topological orders, recently have been extended to photonic systems, predominantly in photonic crystals and to a…

We construct a Dirac theory on causal sets; a key element in the construction being that the causet must be regarded as emergent in an appropriate sense too. We further notice that mixed norm spaces appear in the construction allowing for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-27 Johan Noldus

The spin symmetry in the Dirac sea has been investigated with relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory using the bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. Taking the nucleus $^{16}$O as an example and comparing the theoretical results with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-12 Shihang Shen , Haozhao Liang , Jie Meng , Peter Ring , Shuangquan Zhang

Symmetric Hilbert spaces such as the bosonic and the fermionic Fock spaces over some `one particle space' $\K$ are formed by certain symmetrization procedures performed on the full Fock space. We investigate alternative ways of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Madalin Guta , Hans Maassen