Point particle with extrinsic curvature as a boundary of a Nambu-Goto string: classical and quantum model

DOI10.1007/S00006-015-0590-5zbMATH Open1337.81051arXiv1405.7838OpenAlexW1514211145MaRDI QIDQ284550FDOQ284550

Authors: Matej Pavšič 

Publication date: 18 May 2016

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

Abstract: It is shown how a string living in a higher dimensional space can be approximated as a point particle with squared extrinsic curvature. We consider a generalized Howe-Tucker action for such a "rigid particle" and consider its classical equations of motion and constraints. We find that the algebra of the Dirac brackets between the dynamical variables associated with velocity and acceleration contains the spin tensor. After quantization, the corresponding operators can be represented by the Dirac matrices, projected onto the hypersurface that is orthogonal to the direction of momentum. A condition for the consistency of such a representation is that the states must satisfy the Dirac equation with a suitable effective mass. The Pauli-Lubanski vector composed with such projected Dirac matrices is equal to the Pauli-Lubanski vector composed with the usual, non projected, Dirac matrices, and its eigenvalues thus correspond to spin one half states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7838

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Strings (74K05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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