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We give a non-perturbative construction of a distinguished state for the quantized Dirac field in Minkowski space in the presence of a time-dependent external field of the form of a plane electromagnetic wave. By explicit computation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Felix Finster , Moritz Reintjes

The fermionic signature operator is constructed in Rindler space-time. It is shown to be an unbounded self-adjoint operator on the Hilbert space of solutions of the massive Dirac equation. In two-dimensional Rindler space-time, we prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Felix Finster , Simone Murro , Christian Röken

We give a non-perturbative construction of the fermionic projector in Minkowski space coupled to a time-dependent external potential which is smooth and decays faster than quadratically for large times. The weak and strong mass oscillation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Felix Finster , Simone Murro , Christian Röken

We study the Dirac equation in the Reissner-Nordstr\"om geometry in horizon-penetrating coordinates up to the Cauchy horizon. A mass decomposition theorem is proved, which gives a covariant representation of the spacetime inner product that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Felix Finster , Christoph Krpoun

The structure of the solution space of the Dirac equation in the exterior Schwarzschild geometry is analyzed. Representing the space-time inner product for families of solutions with variable mass parameter in terms of the respective scalar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Felix Finster , Christian Röken

We show that and specify how space-time symmetries give rise to corresponding symmetries of the fermionic signature operator and generalized fermionic projector states.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Felix Finster , Moritz Reintjes

We consider the quantised free Dirac field on oriented and globally hyperbolic ultrastatic slab spacetimes with compact spatial section and demonstrate how a gauge invariant, pure and quasifree state on the C*-completion of the self-dual…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 Christopher J. Fewster , Benjamin Lang

Recently, a new functional analytic construction of quasi-free states for a self-dual CAR algebra has been presented in \cite{Felix2}. This method relies on the so-called strong mass oscillation property. We provide an example where this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Nicolò Drago , Simone Murro

The previous functional analytic construction of the fermionic projector on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is extended to space-times of infinite lifetime. The construction is based on an analysis of families of solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Felix Finster , Moritz Reintjes

We consider fermionic fields of higher spin on a four-dimensional de Sitter background. A particular emphasis is placed on the Rarita-Schwinger spin-$\tfrac{3}{2}$ case. Both massive fields and gauge fields are considered, and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Vasileios A. Letsios , Guillermo A. Silva

We define an index of the fermionic signature operator on even-dimensional globally hyperbolic spin manifolds of finite lifetime. The invariance of the index under homotopies is studied. The definition is generalized to causal fermion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Felix Finster

We solve for the spectrum and eigenfunctions of Dirac operator on the sphere. The eigenvalues are nonzero whole numbers. The eigenfunctions are two-component spinors which may be classified by representations of the SU(2) group with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei A. Abrikosov

We investigated action of operator analogs of Dirac gamma matrices (we called them gamma operators) on a vacuum. We derived formulas for vacuum state vector and operators of the Lorentz transformations of spinors in the superalgebraic…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Vadim Monakhov

Starting with a new theory of symmetries generated by isometries in field theories with spin, one finds the generators of the spinor representation in backgrounds with a given symmetry. In this manner one obtains a collection of conserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ion I Cotăescu

Fermionic condensate is investigated in $(D+1)$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime by using the cutoff function regularization. In order to fix the renormalization ambiguity for massive fields an additional condition is imposed, requiring the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 A. A. Saharian , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. S. Kotanjyan , T. A. Petrosyan

We study Discrete Series representations of $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ with half-integer scaling dimension $\Delta$. At the classical level, we show that these UIRs are realised in the space of mode solutions of spinor fields with imaginary mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Vasileios A. Letsios , Ben Pethybridge , Alan Rios Fukelman

Relativistic spin-1/2 particles in curved spacetime are naturally described by Dirac theory, which is a dynamical and Lorentz-invariant field theory. In this work, we propose a non-dynamical fermion theory in 3+1 dimensions dubbed spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Giandomenico Palumbo

We construct the Wightman function for symmetric traceless tensors and Dirac fermions in dS$_{d+1}$ in a coordinate and index free formalism using a $d+2$ dimensional ambient space. We expand the embedding space formalism to cover spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Ben Pethybridge , Vladimir Schaub

We show that a free Dirac quantum field on a globally hyperbolic spacetime has the following structural properties: (a) any two quasifree Hadamard states on the algebra of free Dirac fields are locally quasiequivalent; (b) the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Claudio D'Antoni , Stefan Hollands

In paper within the model with a maximal mass M and with use of anti de Sitter space is considered the Dirac equation properties for a fermion of mass m on the mass surface. The paper shows that free Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian with…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 V. P. Neznamov
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