Spin-1/2 Maxwell fields

DOI10.1023/B:FOOP.0000022188.90097.10MaRDI QIDQ1768867zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rollin S. jun. Armour

Publication date 15 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305084

zbMATH Keywords

covariance of Maxwell's equationsspin-1/2 representations of the Lorentz group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

Abstract: Requiring covariance of Maxwell's equations without {it a priori} imposing charge invariance allows for both spin-1 and spin-1/2 transformations of the complete Maxwell field and current. The spin-1/2 case yields new transformation rules, with new invariants, for all traditional Maxwell field and source quantities. The accompanying spin-1/2 representations of the Lorentz group employ the Minkowski metric, and consequently the primary spin-1/2 Maxwell invariants are also spin-1 invariants; for example, $$, $$. The associated Maxwell Lagrangian density is also the same for both spin-1 and spin-1/2 fields. However, in the spin-1/2 case, standard field and source quantities are complex and both charge and gauge invariance are lost. Requiring the potentials to satisfy the Klein-Gordon equation equates the Maxwell and field-potential equations with two Dirac equations of the Klein-Gordon mass, and thus one complex Klein-Gordon Maxwell field describes either two real vector fields or two Dirac fields, all of the same mass.

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