Dirac representation of the SO(3,2) group and the Landau problem

DOI10.1134/S0040577923110016MaRDI QIDQ6202524zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 26 March 2024

Published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11333

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{SO}(3, 2)\) groupDirac's remarkable representationdynamical symmetry groupgroup contractionLandau problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (special orbital integrals, non-type I representations, etc.) (22E27) Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: A systematic study carried out on the infinite degeneracy and the constants of motion in the Landau problem establishes the central extension of the Euclidean group in two dimension as a dynamical symmetry group, and Sp(2,R) as spectrum generating group irrespective of the choice of the gauge. It may be noted that the siginificance of the Euclidean group was already implicit in the earlier works on the Landau problem; in the present paper the method of group contraction plays an important role. Dirac's remarkable representation of the group SO(3,2) and the isomorphism of this group with Sp(4,R) are re-visited. New insights are gained on the meaning of two-oscillator system in Dirac representation. It is argued that in view of the fact that even the two dimensional isotropic oscillator having SU(2) as dynamical symmetry group does not arise in the Landau problem the relevance or applicability of SO(3,2) group becomes invalid.

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