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For particles constrained on a curved surface, how to perform quantization within Dirac's canonical quantization scheme is a long-standing problem. On one hand, Dirac stressed that the Cartesian coordinate system has fundamental importance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 D. M. Xun , Q. H. Liu

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

Discretizations of the Feynman-Kac path integral representation of the quantum mechanical density matrix are investigated. Each infinite-dimensional path integral is approximated by a Riemann integral over a finite-dimensional function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bond , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

Using the tetrad formalism, we carry out the separation of variables for the massive complex Dirac equation in the gravitational and electromagnetic field of a four-parameter (mass, angular momentum, electric and magnetic charges) black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 İbrahim Semiz

I show that all FRW models (four dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with maximally symmetric space) can be embedded in a flat Minkowski manifold with 5 dimensions. The pseudo Riemannian metric of space-time is induced by the flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Lachieze-Rey

We discuss the structure of the Dirac equation and how the nilpotent and the Majorana operators arise naturally in this context. This provides a link between Kauffman's work on discrete physics, iterants and Majorana Fermions and the work…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Louis H Kauffman , Peter Rowlands

In a Minkowski spacetime, one may transform the Dirac wave function under the spin group, as one transforms coordinates under the Poincar\'e group. This is not an option in a curved spacetime. Therefore, in the equation proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-30 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

An examples of a Ricci-flat of four-dimensional spaces with a Walker metrics and their generalizations are constructed. The properties of corresponding geodesic equations are discussed.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Valerii Dryuma

We study a conformally invariant equation involving the Dirac operator and a non-linearity of convolution type. This non-linearity is inspired from the conformal Einstein-Dirac problem in dimension 4. We first investigate the compactness,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Ali Maalaoui , Vittorio Martino , Lamine Mbarki

We discuss a set of novel discrete symmetry transformations of the N = 4 supersymmetric quantum mechanical model of a charged particle moving on a sphere in the background of Dirac magnetic monopole. The usual five continuous symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-27 S. Krishna

It has been observed that quantum walks on regular lattices can give rise to wave equations for relativistic particles in the continuum limit. In this paper we define the 3D walk as a product of three coined one-dimensional walks. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Leonard Mlodinow , Todd A. Brun

DIRAC is a freely distributed general-purpose program system for 1-, 2- and 4-component relativistic molecular calculations at the level of Hartree--Fock, Kohn--Sham (including range-separated theory), multiconfigurational…

We calculate the Seiberg-Witten invariants of branched covers of prime degree, where the branch locus consists of embedded spheres. Aside from the formula itself, our calculations give rise to some new constraints on configurations of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-28 David Baraglia

Although the standard generally-covariant Dirac equation is unique in a topologically simple spacetime, it has been shown that it leads to non-uniqueness problems for the Hamiltonian and energy operators, including the non-uniqueness of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 Mayeul Arminjon

The semiclassical solution of quantum Dirac constraints in generic constrained system is obtained by directly calculating in the one-loop approximation the gauge field path integral with relativistic gauge fixing procedure. The gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. O. Barvinsky

The article provides proofs for the regularity of Dirac eigenfunctions, subject to MIT boundary conditions employed on various types of open sets ranging from smooth ones to convex polygons in two dimensions, as well as on half-space and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Tuyen Vu

Differential geomtrical methods for deriving the Dirac equation in Curved Spacetime are presented. Einstein's field equation is applied in a novel manner; in the most current standard reference, Birrell and Davies, 1994 [1], the suggestions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph Saaty

We discuss the dynamics of the Dirac fermions in the general strong gravitational and electromagnetic fields. We derive the general Hermitian Dirac Hamiltonian and transform it to the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation for the spatially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg. V. Teryaev

The quintet of Dirac $4\times 4$ matrices suggests that the fundamental dimension of the internal (spin) space is $n=5$, instead of the conventional dimension $n=4$. Then extending the usual $4\times 4$ tetrads (vierbein), gravity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-28 Yuri N. Obukhov , G. E. Volovik

Several complications arise in quantum field theory because of the infinite many degrees of freedom. However, the distinction between one-particle and many-particle effects -- mainly induced by the vacuum -- is not clear up to now. A field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertfried Fauser