Rigid particle and its spin revisited

DOI10.1007/S10701-006-9094-4zbMATH Open1113.81063arXivhep-th/0412324OpenAlexW3104964639MaRDI QIDQ878418FDOQ878418

Authors: Matej Pavšič 

Publication date: 26 April 2007

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

Abstract: The arguments by Pandres that the double valued spherical harmonics provide a basis for the irreducible spinor representation of the three dimensional rotation group are further developed and justified. The usual arguments against the inadmissibility of such functions, concerning hermiticity, orthogonality, behavior under rotations, etc., are all shown to be related to the unsuitable choice of functions representing the states with opposite projections of angular momentum. By a correct choice of functions and definition of inner product those difficulties do not occur. And yet the orbital angular momentum in the ordinary configuration space can have integer eigenvalues only, for the reason which have roots in the nature of quantum mechanics in such space. The situation is different in the velocity space of the rigid particle, whose action contains a term with the extrinsic curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412324

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationquantum mechanicsrenormalizationscalar productspin angular momentumrigid particledouble valued spherical harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Motion of the gyroscope (70E05)

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