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We review an attempt to set a suitable foundational principle for consistent quantization of gravity based on the canonical formulation. It requires extending the spacetime description of the relativistic postulates to also encompass an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz

When developing a quantum theory for a physical system, one determines the system's symmetry group and its irreducible unitary representations. For Minkowski space, the symmetry group is the Poincar\'e group, $\mathbb{R}^4 \rtimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-04 Eric Ling

The relativistic two-component equation describing the free motion of particles with zero mass and spin 1/2, which is P- and T-non-invariant but C-invariant, is found. The representation of the Poincare group for zero mass and discrete spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm I. Fushchych

We consider relativistic charged particle dynamics and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics using symplectic structures and actions given in terms of co-adjoint orbits of the Poincar\'e group. The particle case is meant to clarify some points…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-19 Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

The Hamiltonian of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation (RTG) with nonzero graviton mass is derived. Scalar field is taken as a matter source. The second class constraints are excluded and Dirac brackets are obtained. There are no first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-01 V. O. Soloviev , M. V. Tchichikina

We present a simple algebraic argument for the conclusion that the low energy limit of a quantum theory of gravity must be a theory invariant, not under the Poincare group, but under a deformation of it parameterized by a dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Lee Smolin , Artem Starodubtsev

We present a relativistic formulation of noncommutative mechanics were the object of noncommutativity $\theta^{\mu\nu}$ is considered as an independent quantity. Its canonical conjugate momentum is also introduced, what permits to obtain an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 R. Amorim , E. M. C. Abreu , W. G. Ramirez

The theory of free relativistic fields is shown to arise in a unified manner from higher-order, configuration-space, irreducible representations of the Poincar\'e group. A de Sitter subalgebra, in the massive case, and a Poincar\'e…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 Miguel Navarro , Manuel Calixto , Víctor Aldaya

This is mainly a lecture note taken by myself following Weinberg's book, but also contains some corrections to the abuse of mathematical treatment. This article discusses projective unitary representations of Poincare group on the single…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Zixuan Feng

We propose a form for the action of a relativistic particle subject to a positional force that is invariant under time reparametrization and therefore allows for a consistent Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics. This approach can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Mignemi

Any canonical quantum theory can be understood to arise from the compatibility of the statistical geometry of distinguishable observations with the canonical Poisson structure of Hamiltonian dynamics. This geometric perspective offers a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vishnu Jejjala , Djordje Minic , Chia-Hsiung Tze

Wigner's particle classification provides for "continuous spin" representations of the Poincar\'e group, corresponding to a class of (as yet unobserved) massless particles. Rather than building their induced realizations by use of "Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

Wigner's irreducible positive energy representations of the Poincare group are often used to give additional justifications for the Lagrangian quantization formalism of standard QFT. Here we study another more recent aspect. We explain in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Fassarella , Bert Schroer

Recently the interest in relativistic quantum plasma is increasing primarily to understand the fundamentals of the plasma behaviour and its properties. Mathematical models used to investigate these plasma are still need to be matured.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Rashid Ahmad , Ikramullah , Saqib Sharif , Shakir Husain , Fida Younus Khattak

This paper presents a relativistic symmetrical interpretation of the Dirac equation in 1+1 dimensions which predicts no zitterbewegung for a free spin-1/2 particle. This could resolve the longstanding puzzle of zitterbewegung in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Michael B. Heaney

We present a new interpretation for reduced density matrices of secondary variables in relativistic systems via an analysis of Wigner's method to construct the irreducible unitary representations of the Poincar\'e group. We argue that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. R. F. Taillebois , A. T. Avelar

We study the phase space structure and the quantization of a pointlike particle in 2+1 dimensional gravity. By adding boundary terms to the first order Einstein Hilbert action, and removing all redundant gauge degrees of freedom, we arrive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Juergen Matschull , Max Welling

The Poincar\'e (inhomogeneous Lorentz) group underlies special relativity. In these lectures a consistent formalism is developed allowing an appropriate gauging of the Poincar\'e group. The physical laws are formulated in terms of points,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-10 Friedrich W. Hehl

This paper is a review of the canonical proper-time approach to relativistic mechanics and classical electrodynamics. The purpose is to provide a physically complete classical background for a new approach to relativistic quantum theory.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Tepper L. Gill , Woodford W. Zachary

A mathematically well-defined, manifestly covariant theory of classical and quantum field is given, based on Euclidean Poisson algebras and a generalization of the Ehrenfest equation, which implies the stationary action principle. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnold Neumaier