Left-Ideals, Dirac Fermions and SU(2)-Flavour

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Authors F. M. C. Witte

Publication date 26 December 2006

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Geometric methods (including applications of algebraic geometry) applied to coding theory (94B27) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

Abstract: In this paper I reconsider the use of the left ideals of the even-grade subalgebra of spacetime algebra to describe fermionic excitations. When interpreted as rotors the general elements of an even-grade left-ideal describe massless particles in chiral flavour doublets. To study the application of these ideas to the standard Dirac formalism I construct a $2imes2$-matrix representation with bivector insertions for the Dirac algebra. This algebra has four ideals, and this approach clarifies how the identification of Dirac $g_{mu}$-matrices with orthonormal basisvectors $$ annihilates half of the ideals. For one possible choice of this mapping the remaining ideals the chiral left- and righthanded components of the fermion coincide with the even- and odd elements of spacetime algebra.

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