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The main objective of this paper is to clarify the ontology of Dirac-Hestenes spinor fields (DHSF) and its relationship with sum of even multivector fields, on a general Riemann-Cartan spacetime admitting a spin structure and to give a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ricardo A. Mosna , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

Almost all presentations of Dirac theory in first or second quantization in Physics (and Mathematics) textbooks make use of covariant Dirac spinor fields. An exception is the presentation of that theory (first quantization) offered…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Waldyr A. Rodrigues

In this paper using the apparatus of the Clifford bundle formalism we show how straightforwardly solve in Minkowski spacetime the Dirac-Hestenes equation -- which is an appropriate representative in the Clifford bundle of differential forms…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roldao da Rocha , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

In this paper we provide using the Clifford and spin-Clifford formalism and some few results of the extensor calculus a derivation of the conservation laws that follow directly from the Dirac-Hestenes equation (DHE) describing a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Antonio M. Moya , Waldyr A. Rodrigues , Samuel A. Wainer

In this paper we introduce the Dirac and spin-Dirac operators associated to a connection on Riemann-Cartan space(time) and standard Dirac and spin-Dirac operators associated with a Levi-Civita connection on a Riemannian (Lorentzian)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. A. Notte-Cuello , W. A. Rodrigues , Q. A. G. de Souza

We consider the Riemann-Cartan geometry as a basis for the Einstein-Sciama-Kibble theory coupled to spinor fields: we focus on $f(R)$ and conformal gravities, regarding the flag-dipole spinor fields, type-(4) spinor fields under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-31 Roldao da Rocha , Luca Fabbri , J. M. Hoff da Silva , R. T. Cavalcanti , J. A. Silva-Neto

Spinor representations of surfaces immersed into 4-dimensional pseudo-riemannian manifolds are defined in terms of minimal left ideals and tensor decompositions of Clifford algebras. The classification of spinor fields and Dirac operators…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

For the description of space-time fermions, Dirac-K\"ahler fields (inhomogeneous differential forms) provide an interesting alternative to the Dirac spinor fields. In this paper we develop a similar concept within the symplectic geometry of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Reuter

Using the Clifford and the Spin-Clifford formalisms we prove that the classical relativistic Hamilton Jacobi equation for a charged massive (and spinning) particle interacting with an external electromagnetic field is equivalent to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Wadyr A. Rodrigues , Samuel A. Wainer

In this paper using the Clifford and spin-Clifford bundles formalism we show how Weyl and Dirac equations formulated in the spin-Clifford bundle may be written in an equivalent form as generalized Maxwell like form formulated in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Waldyr A. Rodrigues

Classification of quantum spinor fields according to quantum bilinear covariants is introduced in a context of quantum Clifford algebras on Minkowski spacetime. Once the bilinear covariants are expressed in terms of algebraic spinor fields,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Rafal Ablamowicz , Icaro Gonçalves , Roldao da Rocha

The present paper is a short survey on the mathematical basics of Classical Field Theory including the Serre-Swan' theorem, Clifford algebra bundles and spinor bundles over smooth Riemannian manifolds, Spin^C-structures, Dirac operators,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Frank

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

In this paper using the Clifford bundle (Cl(M,g)) and spin-Clifford bundle (Cl_{Spin_{1,3}^{e}}(M,g)) formalism, which permit to give a meaningfull representative of a Dirac-Hestenes spinor field (even section of Cl_{Spin_{1,3}^{e}}(M,g))…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Rafael F. Leão , Waldyr A. Rodrigues , Samuel A. Wainer

The bundles suitable for a description of higher-spin fields can be built in terms of a 2-spinor bundle as the basic `building block'. This allows a clear, direct view of geometric constructions aimed at a theory of such fields on a curved…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Daniel Canarutto

We consider a five-dimensional Einstein--Cartan spacetime upon which Dirac spinor fields can be defined. Dirac spinor fields in five and four dimensions share many features, like the fact that both are described by four-component spinor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-31 Stefano Vignolo , Luca Fabbri , Oscar Castillo-Felisola

It is shown that every bundle $\varSigma\to M$ of complex spinor modules over the Clifford bundle $\Cl(g)$ of a Riemannian space $(M,g)$ with local model $(V,h)$ is associated with an lpin ("Lipschitz") structure on $M$, this being a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Friedrich , Andrzej Trautman

Recently Daviau showed the equivalence of ordinary matrix based Dirac theory -formulated within a spinor bundle S_x \simeq C^4_x-, to a Clifford algebraic formulation within space Clifford algebra CL(R^3,delta) \simeq M_2(C) \simeq P \simeq…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Bertfried Fauser

We reexamine the minimal coupling procedure in the Hestenes' geometric algebra formulation of the Dirac equation, where spinors are identified with the even elements of the real Clifford algebra of spacetime. This point of view, as we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Vaclav Zatloukal

We reformulate Holographic Space-time (HST) Models as Hilbert bundles over the space of time-like geodesics on a background manifold. The background, following Jacobson, is viewed as a hydrodynamic flow, which the quantum model must…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-13 T. Banks
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