The Dirac sea

DOI10.1007/S11005-011-0496-7MaRDI QIDQ656995zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Dimock

Publication date 13 January 2012

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5865

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac seahole theorysemi-infinite wedge product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Abstract: We give an alternate definition of the free Dirac field featuring an explicit construction of the Dirac sea. The treatment employs a semi-infinite wedge product of Hilbert spaces. We also show that the construction is equivalent to the standard Fock space construction.

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