Modelling the electron with Cosserat elasticity

DOI10.1112/S002557931200006XzbMATH Open1260.35227arXiv1007.3481MaRDI QIDQ2902664FDOQ2902664

Authors: James Burnett, Dmitri Vassiliev 

Publication date: 22 August 2012

Published in: Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We suggest an alternative mathematical model for the electron in dimension 1+2. We think of our (1+2)-dimensional spacetime as an elastic continuum whose material points can experience no displacements, only rotations. This framework is a special case of the Cosserat theory of elasticity. Rotations of material points are described mathematically by attaching to each geometric point an orthonormal basis which gives a field of orthonormal bases called the coframe. As the dynamical variables (unknowns) of our theory we choose a coframe and a density. We then add an extra (third) spatial dimension, extend our coframe and density into dimension 1+3, choose a conformally invariant Lagrangian proportional to axial torsion squared, roll up the extra dimension into a circle so as to incorporate mass and return to our original (1+2)-dimensional spacetime by separating out the extra coordinate. The main result of our paper is the theorem stating that our model is equivalent to the Dirac equation in dimension 1+2. In the process of analyzing our model we also establish an abstract result, identifying a class of nonlinear second order partial differential equations which reduce to pairs of linear first order equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3481

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceDirac equationelectronKaluza-Klein extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74)

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• The stationary Weyl equation and Cosserat elasticity
• Field equations in teleparallel space-time: Einstein's \textit{Fernparallelismus} approach toward unified field theory
• Special orthonormal frames
• Rotational elasticity
• Weyl's Lagrangian in teleparallel form

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• Spectral theoretic characterization of the massless Dirac operator
• Dirac equation as a special case of Cosserat elasticity
• Rotational elasticity and couplings to linear elasticity

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