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The Fock Bundle of a Dirac Operator and Infinite Grassmannians
1989
In the earlier chapters we have studied representations of current algebras in fermionic Fock spaces. A (fermionic) Fock space is determined by a single Dirac operator D. To set up a Fock space we need a splitting of a complex Hilbert space H to the subspaces H± corresponding to positive and negative frequencies of D. However, in an interacting quantum field theory one really should consider a bundle of Fock spaces parametrized by different Dirac operators. For example, in Yang-Mills theory any smooth vector potential defines a Dirac operator and one must consider the whole bunch of these operators and associated Fock spaces if one wants to describe the interaction of the vector potential w…
Lorentz Multiplet Structure of Baryon Spectra and Relativistic Description
1997
The pole positions of the various baryon resonances are known to reveal well-pronounced clustering, so-called Hoehler clusters. For nonstrange baryons the Hoehler clusters are shown to be identical to Lorentz multiplets of the type (j,j)*[(1/2,0)+(0,1/2)] with j being a half-integer. For the Lambda hyperons below 1800 MeV these clusters are shown to be of the type [(1,0)+ (0,1)]*[(1/2,0)+(0,1/2)] while above 1800 MeV they are parity duplicated (J,0)+(0,J) (Weinberg-Ahluwalia) states. Therefore, for Lambda hyperons the restoration of chiral symmetry takes place above 1800 MeV. Finally, it is demonstrated that the description of spin-3/2 particles in terms of a 2nd rank antisymmetric Lorentz …
Determinant Bundles over Grassmannians
1989
Denoting by H the Hilbert space of square-integrable Dirac spinor fields on a manifold M, transforming according to a unitary representation p of a gauge group G, we have a linear representation of the group g of gauge transformations in the space H. If ρ is faithful we can consider g as a subgroup of the general linear group GL(H). By constructing representations of GL(H) we automatically obtain representations of g. It turns out that in the case when the dimension d of M is odd, g is contained in a smaller group GLp ⊂ GL(H) which has the property that it perturbs the subspace H+ ⊂ H consisting of eigenvectors of a Dirac operator belonging to positive eigenvalues, by an operator A for whic…
Particles with Spin 1/2 and the Dirac Equation
2013
In order to identify the spin of a massive particle one must go to its rest system, perform rotations of the frame of reference, and study the transformation behaviour of one-particle states. This prescription was one of the essential results of Chap. 6. Furthermore, the spin \(1/2\) (electrons, protons, other fermions) is described by the fundamental representation of the group \(SU(2)\). The eigenstates of the observables \(\mathbf{{s}}^2\) and \(s_3\) transform by the \(D\)-matrix \(\mathbf{D }^{(1/2)}(\mathbf R )\) which is a two-valued function on \(\mathbb{R }^3\).