Contemplations on Dirac's equation in quaternionic coordinates

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/25/6/007MaRDI QIDQ4655827zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dirk Schuricht, Martin Greiter

Publication date 8 March 2005

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0409050

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: A formulation of Dirac's equation using complex-quaternionic coordinates appears to yield an enormous gain in formal elegance, as there is no longer any need to invoke Dirac matrices. This formulation, however, entails several peculiarities, which we investigate and attempt to interpret.

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