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In "Part I: Vector Analysis of Spinors", the author studied the geometry of two component spinors as points on the Riemann sphere in the geometric algebra of three dimensional Euclidean space. Here, these ideas are generalized to apply to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Garret Sobczyk

We further explore the idea that physics takes place in Clifford space which should be considered as a generalization of spacetime. Following the old observation that spinors can be represented as members of left ideals of Clifford algebra,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Matej Pavsic

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

In the framework of the Einstein-Dirac-aether theory the extended model is established, in which the backreaction of the spinor field on the unit vector field, describing the dynamic aether, is taken into account. For this purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Alexander B. Balakin , Anna O. Efremova

In the first part of the paper we give a tensor version of the Dirac equation. In the second part we formulate and analyse a simple model equation which for weak external fields appears to have properties similar to those of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Daniel M. Elton , Dmitri Vassiliev

The quantum theory of relativistic particles, based on the first quantization technique similar to that used by Schroedinger and Dirac in formulating quantum mechanics, is reconsidered on the basis of a photon-like dispersion relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Boris Chichkov

I present a review of the Dirac equation in general relativity. Although the generalization of the Dirac equation to a curved spacetime is well known, it is not usually part of the standard toolkit of techniques known to people working on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Miguel Alcubierre

We study a formulation of Dirac fermions in curved spacetime that respects general coordinate invariance as well as invariance under local spin-base transformations. The natural variables for this formulation are spacetime-dependent Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Holger Gies , Stefan Lippoldt

Using a generalized Madelung transformation, we derive the hydrodynamic representation of the Dirac equation in arbitrary curved space-times coupled to an electromagnetic field. We obtain Dirac-Euler equations for fermions involving a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Tonatiuh Matos , Omar Gallegos , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Equations for 16-component vector-bispinor field, originated from Rarita-Schwinger Lagrangian for spin 3/2 field extended to Riemannian space-time are investigated. Additional general covariant constrains for the field are produced, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 V. M. Red'kov

The new manifestation of conformal invariance for a massless scalar particle in a Riemannian spacetime of general relativity is found. Conformal transformations conserve the Hamiltonian and wave function in the Foldy-Wouthuysen…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Alexander J. Silenko

Tensor and matrix 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 projection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 S. I. Kruglov

The equation of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles in the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime is investigated. The retarded and advanced fundamental solutions to the Dirac operator and generalized Dirac operator as well as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Karen Yagdjian

Canonical Hamiltonian field theory in curved spacetime is formulated in a manifestly covariant way. Second quantization is achieved invoking a correspondence principle between the Poisson bracket of classical fields and the commutator of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Leclerc

We discuss the Dirac equation in a curved 5-dimensional spherically symmetric space-time. The angular part of the solutions is thoroughly studied, in a formulation suited for extending to rotating space-times with equal angular momenta. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-29 Y. Brihaye , T. Delsate , N. Sawado , H. Yoshii

We discuss from scratch the classical structure of Dirac spinors on an arbitrary globally hyperbolic, Lorentzian spacetime, their formulation as a locally covariant quantum field theory, and the associated notion of a Hadamard state.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 Claudio Dappiaggi , Thomas-Paul Hack , Nicola Pinamonti

We consider the consistent deformation of the relativistic quantum mechanics introducing the noncommutativity of the space-time and preserving the Lorentz symmetry. The relativistic wave equation describing the spinning particle on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-21 V. G. Kupriyanov

Following the famous Dirac equation, in which space, time and matter are all connected with spinor, this paper uses the combination of these spinors to express the state of quantum field in a new style - the global state. Thus, the state,…

General Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Lun Biao Xu

We employ the polar re-formulation of spinor fields to see in a new light their classification into regular and singular spinors, these last also called flag-dipoles, further splitting into the sub-classes of dipoles and flagpoles: in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Luca Fabbri

Starting with the quaternionic Minkowski space-time and its four-vector representation, a rotational analogue of the quaternionic Dirac equation in the electromagnetic field is developed, which includes not only the energy solutions but…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Shikha Bhatt , B. C. Chanyal