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The Pryce (e) spin and position operators of the quantum theory of Dirac's free field were re-defined and studied recently with the help of a new spin symmetry and suitable spectral representations [I. I. Cot\u aescu, Eur. Phys. J. C (2022)…

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According to Ahluwalia and Grumiller, massive spin-half fields of mass-dimension one can be constructed using the eigenspinors of the charge-conjugation operator (Elko) as expansion coefficients. In this paper, we generalize their result by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-10 Cheng-Yang Lee

The second-order differential equation for a damped harmonic oscillator can be converted to two coupled first-order equations, with two two-by-two matrices leading to the group $Sp(2)$. It is shown that this oscillator system contains the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Sibel Baskal , Young S. Kim , Marilyn E. Noz

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

In the theory of nets of observable algebras, the modular operators associated with wedge regions are expected to have a natural geometric action, a generalization of the Bisognano-Wichmann condition for nets associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Davidson

We construct new relativistic linear differential equation in $d$ dimensions generalizing Dirac equation by employing the Clifford algebra of the cubic polynomial associated to Klein-Gordon operator multiplied by the mass parameter. Unlike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Michel Rausch de Traubenberg

The spin supplementary conditions are constraints on spin degrees of freedom in classical relativity which restricts physical degrees of freedom to rotations. It is argued that the equivalent constraints in quantum field theory are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Jung-Wook Kim , Jan Steinhoff

We investigate the structure of SO(3)-invariant quantum systems which are composed of two particles with spins j_1 and j_2. The states of the composite spin system are represented by means of two complete sets of rotationally invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer

We examine canonical quantization of relativistic field theories on the forward hyperboloid, a Lorentz-invariant surface of the form $x_\mu x^\mu = \tau^2$. This choice of quantization surface implies that all components of the 4-momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 E. P. Biernat , W. H. Klink , W. Schweiger , S. Zelzer

An approach to special relativistic dynamics using the language of spinors and twistors is presented. Exploiting the natural conformally invariant symplectic structure of the twistor space, a model is constructed which describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Andreas Bette

We propose a manifestly Lorentz covariant, non-commutative Dirac equation for charged particles interacting with an electromagnetic field. The equation is formulated on the operator level, but operators are not composed through the normal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-05 P. H. Williams , F. G. Scholtz

Massive spin 1/2 particles require 2-spinors for rotations, 4-spinors for rotations and boosts with parity. Including translations requires 8-spinors. Adapting 4-spinor field theory to 8-spinor fields with translation symmetry is discussed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Richard Shurtleff

The building blocks of Hudson-Parthasarathy quantum stochastic calculus start with Weyl operators on a symmetric Fock space. To realize a relativistically covariant version of the calculus we construct representations of Poincare group in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Radhakrishnan Balu

We formulate a general gauge invariant Lagrangian construction describing the dynamics of massive higher spin fermionic fields in arbitrary dimensions. Treating the conditions determining the irreducible representations of Poincare group…

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Recently, Cohen and Glashow pointed out that all known experimental tests of relativistic kinematics are consistent with invariance of physics under the four-parameter subgroup Sim(2) of the Lorentz group. The massive one-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 JiJi Fan , Walter D. Goldberger , Witold Skiba

Dirac operators on curved space-times are introduced with the help of a new point-view that observers have to be included in the formulation of natural laws. The class of Dirac operators are Lorentz invariant in the sense that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Zhongmin Qian

We present in the article the formulation of a version of Lorentz covariant quantum mechanics based on a group theoretical construction from a Heisenberg-Weyl symmetry with position and momentum operators transforming as Minkowski…

General Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Suzana Bedić , Otto C. W. Kong , Hock King Ting

Covariantly we reformulate the description of a spinning particle in terms of the Poincar\'{e} group. We also construct a Lagrangian which entails all possible constraints explicitly; all constraints can be obtained just from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jin-Ho Cho , Seungjoon Hyun , Jae-Kwan Kim

Although the spin is regarded as a fundamental property of the electron, there is no universally accepted spin operator within the framework of relativistic quantum mechanics. We investigate the properties of different proposals for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Heiko Bauke , Sven Ahrens , Christoph H. Keitel , Rainer Grobe

Spin of elementary particles is the only kinematic degree of freedom not having classical corre- spondence. It arises when seeking for the finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group, which is the only symmetry group of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 S. Savasta , O. Di Stefano