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General relativistic quantum dynamics of twisted (vortex) Dirac particles is constructed. The Hamiltonian and equations of motion in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation are derived for a twisted relativistic electron in arbitrary electric…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

The quantum field theory describing electric and magnetic charges and revealing a dual symmetry was developed in the Zwanziger formalism. The renormalization group (RG) equations for both fine structure constants - electric $\alpha$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. V. Laperashvili , H. B. Nielsen

Closed-form, normalizable solutions of Dirac's equation propagating within a semi-infinite cylindrical waveguide are obtained in terms of ordinary and modified Bessel functions. These relativistic wave packets induce quantum backflow on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Siddhant Das

This article develops a variational formulation for the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation. The main results are obtained through an extension of the classical mechanics approach to a more general context, which in some sense, includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Fabio Botelho

When speaking of the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity, one normally refers to special relativity (SR) or to Einstein general relativity (GR). The Dirac and Klein-Gordon wave equations are an example of unification of quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Leonardo Chiatti

We postulate a new nonlinear generalization of the Dirac equation for an electron. Basic properties of the new equation are considered.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Nikolay Marchuk

Relying on a fundamental empirical identity of heavy and inertial mass it is proposed to bring a status of general theory of relativity (GTR) of Einstein up to a level of Unified Field Theory. To do this, a thoroughgoing revision of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Boris Mordvinov

In the canonical approach to general relativity it is customary to parametrize the phase space by initial data on spacelike hypersurfaces. However, if one seeks a theory dealing with observations that can be made by a single localized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hossein Farajollahi , Hugh Luckock

Special relativity, the symmetry breakdown in the electroweak standard model, and the dichotomy of the spacetime related transformations with the Lorentz group, on the one side, and the chargelike transformations with the hypercharge and…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Heinrich Saller

The present paper is the continuation of the paper "Nonlinear field theory I". In the paper it is shown that a fully correspondence between the quantum and the nonlinear electromagnetic forms of the Dirac electron theory exists, so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Kyriakos

Quantum Relativity is supposed to be a new theory, which locally is a deformation of Special Relativity, and globally it is a background independent theory including the main ideas of General Relativity, with hindsight from Quantum Theory.…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-08 Lucian M Ionescu

I provide a very brief sketch of some of Dirac's interests and work in gravity, particularly his Hamiltonian formulation of Einstein's theory and its relation to his earlier research.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser

In 1971 Feynman, Kislinger and Ravndal [1] proposed Lorentz-invariant differential equation capable to describe relativistic particle with mass and internal space-time structure. By making use of new variables that differentiate between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Paul Korbel

This paper studies unitary representations with Dirac cohomology for complex groups, in particular relations to unipotent representations

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-09 Dan Barbasch , Pavle Pandžić

In non-relativistic as well as in special relativistic quantum theory, {\em mass} and {\em charge} are {\em pure numbers} appearing in various (quantum) operators and admit {\em any values}, {\it ie}, values for these quantities are to be…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay M. Wagh

The quantum gauge general relativity is proposed in the framework of quantum gauge theory of gravity. It is formulated based on gauge principle which states that the correct symmetry for gravitational interactions should be gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ning Wu

The question how to Lorentz transform an N-particle wave function naturally leads to the concept of a so-called multi-time wave function, i.e. a map from (space-time)^N to a spin space. This concept was originally proposed by Dirac as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Matthias Lienert

A detailed consideration of the Klein-Gordon equation in relativistic quantum mechanics is presented in order to offer more clarity than many standard approaches. The equation is frequently employed in the research literature, even though…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 P. J. Bussey

A notion of a quantum automorphism group of a finite quantum group, generalising that of a classical automorphism group of a finite group, is proposed and a corresponding existence result proved.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Jyotishman Bhowmick , Adam Skalski , Piotr M. Sołtan

The compatibility of special relativity and Quantum Mechanics has been questioned by several authors. The origin of this tension can be traced back mainly to the introduction of the measurement processes and the corresponding wave function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Marcello Baldo