English
Related papers

Related papers: Physical Space as a Quaternion Structure, I: Maxwe…

200 papers

Classical, Quantum, Relativistic and Statistical: the four branches of mechanics. However, the Quattro Donna of Physics disagree even about the entities that are supposed to be fundamental, such as space, matter and time. In order to search…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Assumpcao

Momentum space entanglement of four fermion field theory is calculated from the Wilsonian effective action pertubatively using replica trick, local terms in low energy effective action are proved to be non-relevant pertubatively and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 Weijun Kong , Qing Wang

We combine Maxwell's equations with Eulers's equation, related to a velocity field of an immaterial fluid, where the density of mass is replaced by a charge density. We come out with a differential system able to describe a relevant…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Daniele Funaro

We show that the main properties of the fracton quasiparticles can be derived from a generalized covariant Maxwell-like action. Starting from a rank-2 symmetric tensor field $A_{\mu\nu}(x)$, we build a partially symmetric rank-3 tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-20 Erica Bertolini , Nicola Maggiore

The paper aims to apply the algebra of octonions to explore the contributions of external derivative of electric moments and so forth on the induced electric currents, revealing a few major influencing factors relevant to the direct and…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Zi-Hua Weng

It is demonstrated that energy conservation allows for a straight derivation of Newtonian mechanics without an apriori definition of the concept of work. Furthermore it is shown that energy must be depicted as a function of position and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 C. Baumgarten

Starting from the experimental fact that a moving charge experiences the Lorentz force and applying the fundamental principles of simplicity (first order derivatives only) and linearity (superposition principle), we show that the structure…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Gerhard Diener , Jürgen Weissbarth , Frank Grossmann , Rüdiger Schmidt

Two questions are investigated by looking successively at classical mechanics, special relativity, and relativistic gravity: first, how is space related with spacetime? The proposed answer is that each given reference fluid, that is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Mayeul Arminjon

We summarize a recent work on the title subject, skipping the detailed calculations but introducing the basic points with enough detail. The theory considered is formulated in a preferred reference frame in a four-dimensional spacetime…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Mayeul Arminjon

Electron pairing at low temperatures leads to superconductivity. A fundamental question is whether more complex states - characterized by order in four-electron composite objects, termed electron quadrupling or composite order - can exist…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-23 Albert Samoilenka , Egor Babaev

The partition function of a relativistic invariant quantum field theory is expressed by its vacuum energy calculated on a spatial manifold with one dimension compactified to a 1-sphere $S^1 (\beta)$, whose circumference $\beta$ represents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Hugo Reinhardt

The paper aims to consider the electromagnetic adjoint-field in the complex octonion space as the dark matter field, describing some properties of dark matter, especially the origin, particle category, existence region, and force and so…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Zi-Hua Weng

The complex unit appearing in the equations of quantum mechanics is generalised to a quaternionic structure on spacetime, leading to the consideration of complex quantum mechanical particles whose dynamical behaviour is governed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. P. Brumby , G. C. Joshi

Inspired by the relation between the algebra of complex numbers and plane geometry, William Rowan Hamilton sought an algebra of triples for application to three dimensional geometry. Unable to multiply and divide triples, he invented a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Govind S. Krishnaswami , Sonakshi Sachdev

The statistical mechanical description of small systems staying in thermal equilibrium with an environment can be achieved by means of the Hamiltonian of mean force. In contrast to the reduced density matrix of an open quantum system, or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

In this work, we construct the general solution to the Heat Equation (HE) and to many tensor structures associated to the Heat Equation, such as Symmetries, Lagrangians, Poisson Brackets (PB) and Lagrange Brackets, using newly devised…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel D. Bustamante , Sergio A. Hojman

Modern astronomical observations in cosmology provide increasingly strong evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. Explanations of the cosmic acceleration within the framework of general relativity use the hypothesis…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 I. K. Rozgacheva , A. A. Agapov

Quaternion, an extension of complex number, is the first discovered non-commutative division algebra by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843. In this article, we review the recent progress on building up the connection between the mathematical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-31 Congjun Wu

We generalize the concept of a field by allowing addition to be a partial operation. We show that elements of such a "partially additive field" share many similarities with physical quantities. In particular, they form subsets of mutually…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Georgy Alymov

In this work, we propose using real quaternions for the definition of the time interval resulting in an alternative formulation of the relativistic space-time. We proceed with the quaternion definition of the particle mass that we derive…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Viktor Ariel