Mass, zero mass and\dots nophysics

DOI10.1007/S00006-017-0758-2MaRDI QIDQ1695172zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 7 February 2018

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06966

Borel subgroup chirality helicity Lorentz group massless particles solvable groups

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Special relativity (83A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: In this paper we demonstrate that massless particles cannot be considered as limiting case of massive particles. Instead, the usual symmetry structure based on semisimple groups like

U (1)

,

S U (2)

and

S U (3)

has to be replaced by less usual solvable groups like the minimal nonabelian group

{m s o l}_{2}

. Starting from the proper orthochronous Lorentz group

{m L o r}_{1, 3}

we extend Wigner's little group by an additional generator, obtaining the maximal solvable or Borel subgroup

{m B o r}_{1, 3}

which is equivalent to the Kronecker sum of two copies of

{m s o l}_{2}

, telling something about the helicity of particle and antiparticle states.

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