A Clifford bundle approach to the wave equation of a spin 1/2 fermion in the de Sitter manifold

DOI10.1007/S00006-015-0588-ZzbMATH Open1337.81065arXiv1502.05685OpenAlexW1926617766MaRDI QIDQ284544FDOQ284544

Authors: M. Rivera-Tapia, Waldyr A. jun. Rodrigues, Samuel Augusto Wainer, Eduardo A. Notte-Cuello, Igor Kondrashuk 

Publication date: 18 May 2016

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

Abstract: In this paper we give a Clifford bundle motivated approach to the wave equation of a free spin $1/2$ fermion in the de Sitter manifold, a brane with topology $M=mathrmS0(4,1)/mathrmS0(3,1)$ living in the bulk spacetime $$ and equipped with a metric field $$ with $$ being the inclusion map. To obtain the analog of Dirac equation in Minkowski spacetime in the structure $mathringM$ we appropriately factorize the two Casimir invariants $C_1$ and $C_2$ of the Lie algebra of the de Sitter group using the constraint given in the linearization of $C_2$ as input to linearize $C_1$. In this way we obtain an equation that we called extbf{DHESS1,}which in previous studies by other authors was simply postulated.$.$Next we derive a wave equation (called extbf{DHESS2}) for a free spin $1/2$ fermion in the de Sitter manifold using a heuristic argument which is an obvious generalization of a heuristic argument (described in detail in Appendix D) permitting a derivation of the Dirac equation in Minkowski spacetime and which shows that such famous equation express nothing more than the fact that the momentum of a free particle is a constant vector field over timelike integral curves of a given velocity field. It is a remarkable fact that extbf{DHESS1}and extbf{DHESS2} coincide. One of the main ingredients in our paper is the use of the concept of Dirac-Hestenes spinor fields. Appendices B and C recall this concept and its relation with covariant Dirac spinor fields usualy used by physicists.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05685

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationClifford bundlede Sitter manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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