Bundle theory of improper spin transformations

DOI10.1007/S10773-005-2061-6zbMATH Open1077.81046arXivquant-ph/0410079OpenAlexW2044556034MaRDI QIDQ2575502FDOQ2575502

Authors: D. B. Cervantes, S. L. Quiroga, L. J. Perissinotti, M. Socolovsky 

Publication date: 12 December 2005

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: {it We first give a geometrical description of the action of the parity operator ($hatP$) on non relativistic spin $1over2$ Pauli spinors in terms of bundle theory. The relevant bundle, $$, is a non trivial extension of the universal covering group $SU(2)oSO(3)$. $hatP$ is the non relativistic limit of the corresponding Dirac matrix operator $calP=igamm{a}_0$ and obeys $hat{P}^2=-1$. Then, from the direct product of O(3) by $$, naturally induced by the structure of the galilean group, we identify, in its double cover, the time reversal operator ($hatT$) acting on spinors, and its product with $hatP$. Both, $hatP$ and $hatT$, generate the group $$. As in the case of parity, $hatT$ is the non relativistic limit of the corresponding Dirac matrix operator $calT=gamm{a}^{3}gamm{a}^1$, and obeys $hat{T}^2=-1$.}

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410079

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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