Representations of the discrete inhomogeneous Lorentz group and Dirac wave equation on the lattice

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/12/019zbMATH Open0932.22010arXivhep-lat/0401019OpenAlexW1968967306MaRDI QIDQ4258331FDOQ4258331

Miguel Lorente, Peter Kramer

Publication date: 22 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose the fundamental and two dimensional representation of the Lorentz groups on a (3+1)-dimensional hypercubic lattice, from which representations of higher dimensions can be constructed. For the unitary representation of the discrete translation group we use the kernel of the Fourier transform. From the Dirac representation of the Lorentz group (including reflections) we derive in a natural way the wave equation on the lattice for spin 1/2 particles. Finally the induced representation of the discrete inhomogeneous Lorentz group is constructed by standard methods and its connection with the continuous case is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0401019

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationinduced representationsquantum field theory on latticesDirac and Klein-Gordon fields on the lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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