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Dual-helicity eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator (ELKO spinor fields) belong, together with Majorana spinor fields, to a wider class of spinor fields, the so-called flagpole spinor fields, corresponding to the class (5),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Roldao da Rocha , Julio M. Hoff da Silva

In a previous paper we explicitly constructed a mapping that leads Dirac spinor fields to the dual-helicity eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator (ELKO spinor fields). ELKO spinor fields are prime candidates for describing dark…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Roldao da Rocha , J. M. Hoff da Silva

Dual-helicity eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator (ELKO spinor fields) belong -- together with Majorana spinor fields -- to a wider class of spinor fields, the so-called flagpole spinor fields, corresponding to the class-(5),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-03 Roldao da Rocha , J. M. Hoff da Silva

We recall the Lounesto classification of 1/2-spin spinor fields, based on the vanishing of spinorial bilinear quantities: the classes are the regular spinor fields (i.e. the Dirac field), as well as singular spinor fields, also known as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Luca Fabbri

We investigate the constraint equations of the Lounesto spinor fields classification and show that it can be used to completely characterize all the singular classes, which are potential accommodations for further mass dimension one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-17 R. T. Cavalcanti

In this communication we briefly report an unexpected theoretical discovery which emerge from the mapping of Elko mass-dimension-one spinors into single helicity spinors. Such procedure unveils a class of spinor which is classified as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-09 C. H. Coronado Villalobos , R. J. Bueno Rogerio , E. F. T. São Sabbas

The Lounesto classification splits spinors in six classes: I, II, III are those for which at least one among scalar and pseudo-scalar bi-linear spinor quantities is non-zero, its spinors are called regular, and among them we find the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-04 Roberto Cianci , Luca Fabbri , Stefano Vignolo

We relate the Lounesto classification of regular and singular spinors to the orbits of the $Spin(3,1)$ group in the space of Dirac spinors. We find that regular spinors are associated with the principal orbits of the spin group while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 G. Papadopoulos

In this paper, we consider the most general treatment of spinor fields, their kinematic classification and the ensuing dynamic polar reduction, for both classes of regular and singular spinors; specifying onto the singular class, we discuss…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Luca Fabbri

In this work, we consider a generalization of quantum electrodynamics including Lorentz violation and torsional-gravity, in the context of general spinor fields as classified in the Lounesto scheme. Singular spinor fields will be shown to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-02 A. F. Ferrari , J. A. S. Neto , R. da Rocha

A spinor fields classification with non-Abelian gauge symmetries is introduced, generalizing the the U(1) gauge symmetries-based Lounesto's classification. Here, a more general classification, contrary to the Lounesto's one, encompasses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Luca Fabbri , Roldao da Rocha

In this paper we recall that by construction Elko spinor fields of {\lambda} and {\rho} types satisfy a coupled system of first order partial differential equations (csfopde) that once interacted leads to Klein-Gordon equations for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 E. Capelas de Oliveira , W. A. Rodrigues , J. Vaz

In this report we advance into a mapping procedure transmuting a single helicity spinor to a dual helicity spinor. Such a mathematical mechanism reveal us a class of spinor which fits into fourth class within Lounesto classification. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-09 R. J. Bueno Rogerio , C. H. Coronado Villalobos

After reviewing the Lounesto spinor field classification, according to the bilinear covariants associated to a spinor field, we call attention and unravel some prominent features involving unexpected properties about spinor fields under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 J. M. Hoff da Silva , Roldão da Rocha

The so-called Lounesto's classification engenders six distinct classes of spinors, divided into two sectors: one composed by regular spinors (single-helicity spinors) and the other composed by singular spinors (comprising dual-helicity…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 R. J. Bueno Rogerio

The Lounesto classification is a well-established scheme for categorizing spinors based on their physical content, which are determined by their associated bilinear forms. It consists of six disjoint classes encompassing the known spinors…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 R. J. Bueno Rogerio , R. T. Cavalcanti , C. H. Coronado Villalobos , J. M. Hoff da Silva

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

A classification of spinor fields according to the associated bilinear covariants is constructed in arbitrary dimensions and metric signatures, generalizing Lounesto's 4D spinor field classification. In such a generalized classification a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 L. Bonora , K. P. S. de Brito , Roldao da Rocha

The Lounesto spinor classification is an important tool in fundamental physics, because it makes explicit the pleiade of spinors types, beyond the used in quantum field theory (QFT). In this work, we show how the classification emerges in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 J. A. Silva Neto

Lounesto's classification of spinors is a comprehensive and exhaustive algorithm that, based on the bilinears covariants, discloses the possibility of a large variety of spinors, comprising regular and singular spinors and their unexpected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-28 L. Bonora , J. M. Hoff da Silva , R. da Rocha
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