Hermitian Dirac Hamiltonian in the time-dependent gravitational field

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/12/001zbMATH Open1096.83003arXivgr-qc/0511060OpenAlexW2015881733MaRDI QIDQ5481097FDOQ5481097

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Publication date: 7 August 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown by a straightforward argument that the Hamiltonian generating the time evolution of the Dirac wave function in relativistic quantum mechanics is not hermitian with respect to the covariantly defined inner product whenever the background metric is time dependent. An alternative, hermitian, Hamiltonian is found and is shown to be directly related to the canonical field Hamiltonian used in quantum field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511060

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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