Wigner-Souriau translations and Lorentz symmetry of chiral fermions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.01.048zbMATH Open1345.81049arXiv1411.6541OpenAlexW2165193919MaRDI QIDQ315918FDOQ315918

Authors: Christian Duval, Mahmut Elbistan, Peter A. Horváthy, Pengming Zhang 

Publication date: 26 September 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Chiral fermions can be embedded into Souriau's massless spinning particle model by "enslaving" the spin, viewed as a gauge constraint. The latter is not invariant under Lorentz boosts; spin enslavement can be restored, however, by a subsequent Wigner-Souriau (WS) translation, analogous to a compensating gauge transformation. The combined transformation is precisely the recently uncovered twisted boost, which we now extend to finite transformations. WS-translations are identified with the stability group of a motion acting on the right on the Poincare group, whereas the natural Poincare action corresponds to action on the left. The relation to non-commutative mechanics is explained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6541

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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