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The fundamental solutions of the super Dirac and Laplace operators and their natural powers are determined within the framework of Clifford analysis.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-07-20 Hendrik De Bie , Frank Sommen

Earlier we have shown that interacting electron-positron and electromagnetic fields can be considered as a certain microscopic distortion of pseudo-Euclidean properties of the Minkovsky 4-space-time. The known Dirac and Maxwell equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Olkhov

Quaternionic Clifford analysis is a recent new branch of Clifford analysis, a higher dimensional function theory which refines harmonic analysis and generalizes to higher dimension the theory of holomorphic functions in the complex plane.…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Fred Brackx , Hennie De Schepper , David Eelbode , Roman Lavicka , Vladimir Soucek

We find out classical particles, starting from Dirac quantum fields on a curved space-time, by an eikonal approximation and a localization hypothesis for amplitudes. We recover the results by Mathisson-Papapetrou, hence establishing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Francesco Cianfrani , Giovanni Montani

Real Clifford algebras for arbitrary number of space and time dimensions as well as their representations in terms of spinors are reviewed and discussed. The Clifford algebras are classified in terms of isomorphic matrix algebras of real,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Stefan Floerchinger

Starting from the geometric calculus based on Clifford algebra, the idea that physical quantities are Clifford aggregates ("polyvectors") is explored. A generalized point particle action ("polyvector action") is proposed. It is shown that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Matej Pavsic

A version of the Dirac equation is derived from first principles using a combination of quaternions and multivariate 4-vectors. The nilpotent form of the operators used allows us to derive explicit expressions for the wavefunctions of free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Rowlands , John P. Cullerne

The author discusses particular solutions of a second order equation designated by source equation. This equation is special because the metric of the space where it is written is influenced by the solution, rendering the equation…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

In this brief note insightful remarks are made on the controversy on the decomposition of the proton spin into the spin and orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons. It is argued that the difference in the perception on the nature of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 S. C. Tiwari

This is the second part of an article about q-deformed analogs of spinor calculus. The considerations refer to quantum spaces of physical interest, i.e. q-deformed Euclidean space in three or four dimensions as well as q-deformed Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schmidt , Hartmut Wachter

A derivation is presented of the quantummechanical wave equations based upon the Equity Principle of Einstein's General Relativity Theory. This is believed to be more generic than the common derivations based upon Einstein's energy…

General Physics · Physics 2007-07-19 Engel Roza

The main properties of hypercomplex generalization of quaternion system as antiquaternion are presented in this article. Definitions and studied of antiquaternions conjugation are introduced, their norm and zero divisor, and how to perform…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Yakiv O. Kalinovsky , Dmitry V. Lande , Dr. Sc. , Yuliya E. Boyarinova , Alina S. Turenko

Moving from the consideration that matter fields must be treated in terms of their fundamental quantum counterparts, we show straightforward arguments, within the framework of ordinary quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-28 Pietro Dona , Antonino Marciano

There are exactly three finite subgroups of SU(2) that act irreducibly in the spin 1 representation, namely the binary tetrahedral, binary octahedral and binary icosahedral groups. In previous papers I have shown how the binary tetrahedral…

General Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Robert A. Wilson

We present an analysis of the Dirac equation when the spin symmetry is changed from SU(2) to the quaternion group, $Q_8$, achieved by multiplying one of the gamma matrices by the imaginary number, $i$. The reason for doing this is to…

General Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Bryan Sanctuary

One way of arriving at a quantum field theory of electrons and positrons is to take a classical theory of the Dirac field and then quantize. Starting with the standard classical field theory and quantizing in the most straightforward way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Charles T. Sebens

We develop the method of averaging in Clifford (geometric) algebras suggested by the author in previous papers. We consider operators constructed using two different sets of anticommuting elements of real or complexified Clifford algebras.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 D. S. Shirokov

Certain many-particle Hardy inequalities are derived in a simple and systematic way using the so-called ground state representation for the Laplacian on a subdomain of $\mathbb{R}^n$. This includes geometric extensions of the standard Hardy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Douglas Lundholm

The Clifford algebra of a n-dimensional Euclidean vector space provides a general language comprising vectors, complex numbers, quaternions, Grassman algebra, Pauli and Dirac matrices. In this work, we present an introduction to the main…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 G. Aragon-Camarasa , G. Aragon-Gonzalez , J. L. Aragon , M. A. Rodriguez-Andrade

The exterior algebra of Minkowski space naturally has the structure of a sixteen-dimensional Clifford algebra representation, and so can be used as the space of spinors. We examine plane, circular, and spherical solutions to the free Dirac…

General Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Jason Hanson