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We construct a Dirac equation that is consistent with one of the recently-proposed schemes for a "doubly-special relativity", a relativity with both an observer-independent velocity scale (still naturally identified with the speed-of-light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandra Agostini , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Michele Arzano

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

We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $\alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Moitri Maiti , R. Shankar

In the framework leading to the multiplicative anomaly formula ---which is here proven to be valid even in cases of known spectrum but non-compact manifold (very important in Physics)--- zeta-function regularisation techniques are shown to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Emilio Elizalde , Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

There are gauge-transformation operators applicable to massless spin-1/2 particles within the little-group framework of internal space-time symmetries of massive and massless particles. It is shown that two of the $SL(2,c)$ spinors are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. S. Kim

The eigenvalue problem for Dirac operators, constructed from two connections on the spinor bundle over closed spacelike 2-surfaces, is investigated. A class of divergence free vector fields, built from the eigenspinors, are found, which,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Laszlo B. Szabados

When utilizing a cluster decomposible relativistic scattering formalism, it is most convenient that the covariant field equations take on a linear form with respect to the energy and momentum dispersion on the fields in the manner given by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Lindesay

For Dirac equation, operator-invariants containing explicit time-dependence in parallel to known time-dependent invariants of nonrelativistic Schr\"odinger equation are introduced and discussed. As an example, a free Dirac particle is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. I. Man'ko , R. V. Mendes

We give a construction of a Dirac operator on a quantum group based on any simple Lie algebra of classical type. The Dirac operator is an element in the vector space $U_q(\g) \otimes \mathrm{cl}_q(\g)$ where the second tensor factor is a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Antti J. Harju

There are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical equation for a spin S=1 particle in 2-dimensional Riemannian space of constant positive curvature, spherical plane, in presence of an external magnetic field, analogue of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. V. Kisel , V. M. Red'kov

A construction of the real 4D Minkowski space-time starting from quantum harmonic oscillators is proposed. First, a 2D spinor space and its dual are derived from the standard commutation relations obeyed by the ladder operators of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Fabrice Debbasch

We look at smooth manifolds equipped with a possibly singular Riemannian metric. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of scalar curvature measures and Dirac operators.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 John Lott

The Dirac method is used to analyze the classical and quantum dynamics of a particle constrained on a circle. The method of Lagrange multipliers is scrutinized, in particular in relation to the quantization procedure. Ordering problems are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antonello Scardicchio

Dirac's leaping insight that the normalized anti-commutator of the {\gamma}^{\mu} matrices must equal the timespace signature {\eta}^{\mu}{\nu} was decisive for the success of his equation. The {\gamma}^{\mu}-s are the same in all Lorentz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Sokol Andoni

We resolve a number of questions related to an analytic description of electromagnetic form factors of non-Dirac particles with the rest spin 1/2. We find the general structure of a matrix antisymmetric tensor operator. We obtain two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-13 L. M. Slad

Extended particles are considered in terms of the fields on the Poincar\'{e} group. Dirac like wave equations for extended particles of any spin are defined on the various homogeneous spaces of the Poincar\'{e} group. Free fields of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-11 V. V. Varlamov

We prove that the Neumann, Dirichlet and regularity problems for divergence form elliptic equations in the half space are well posed in $L_2$ for small complex $L_\infty$ perturbations of a coefficient matrix which is either real symmetric,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pascal Auscher , Andreas Axelsson , Steve Hofmann

Massive spinning particle in $6d$-Minkowski space is described as a mechanical system with the configuration space $R^{5,1} \times CP^3$. The action functional of the model is unambiguously determined by the requirement of identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov , K. M. Shekhter

In several of the class A Bianchi models, minisuperspaces admit symmetries. It is pointed out that they can be used effectively to complete the Dirac quantization program. The resulting quantum theory provides a useful platform to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar , Ranjeet S. Tate , Claes Uggla

The Dirac equation with mass and axial chemical potential is solved analytically obtaining the mode spinors and corresponding projection operators giving the spectral representations of the principal conserved operators. In this framework,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Ion I. Cotaescu