Field equations from Killing spinors

DOI10.1063/1.4989434zbMATH Open1382.81083arXiv1705.04685OpenAlexW2616330716MaRDI QIDQ4607699FDOQ4607699

Authors: Özgür Açık 

Publication date: 14 March 2018

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

Abstract: From the Killing spinor equation and the equations satisfied by their bilinears we deduce some well known bosonic and fermionic field equations of mathematical physics. Aside from the trivially satisfied Dirac equation, these relativistic wave equations in curved spacetimes respectively are Klein-Gordon, Maxwell, Proca, Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau, K"{a}hler, twistor and Rarita-Schwinger equations. This result shows that, besides being special kinds of Dirac fermions, Killing fermions can be regarded as physically fundamental. For the Maxwell case the problem of motion is analysed in a reverse manner with respect to the works of Einstein-Groemer-Infeld-Hoffmann and Jean Marie Souriau. In the analysis of the gravitino field a generalised $3-psi$ rule is found which is termed the vanishing trace constraint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04685

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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