Matrix mechanics of the relativistic point particle and string in Clifford space

DOI10.1007/S00006-015-0557-6zbMATH Open1339.83054arXiv1406.2830OpenAlexW1539793883MaRDI QIDQ284508FDOQ284508

Kaare Borchsenius

Publication date: 18 May 2016

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

Abstract: We resolve the space-time canonical variables of the relativistic point particle into inner products of Weyl spinors with components in a Clifford algebra and find that these spinors themselves form a canonical system with generalized Poisson brackets. For N particles, the inner products of their Clifford coordinates and momenta form two NxN Hermitian matrices X and P which transform under a U(N) symmetry in the generating algebra. This is used as a starting point for defining matrix mechanics for a point particle in Clifford space. Next we consider the string. The Lorentz metric induces a metric and a scalar on the world sheet which we represent by a Jackiw-Teitelboim term in the action. The string is described by a polymomenta canonical system and we find the wave solutions to the classical equations of motion for a flat world sheet. Finally, we show that the SL(2.C) charge and space-time momentum of the quantized string satisfy the Poincare algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2830

zbMATH Keywords

actionClifford algebraHermitian matricesstringClifford spacegeneralized Poisson bracketsJackiw-Teitelboim termLorentz metricmatrix mechanicsquantized stringrelativistic point particlespace-time canonical variableswave solutionsWeyl spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Wave equation (35L05) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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• A String Motivated Approach to the Relativistic Point Particle
• Clifford space as a generalization of spacetime: prospects for QFT of point particles and strings

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