Search results for "Poincaré group"

A remark on conjectures in modular representation theory

1987

The cauchy problem for non-linear Klein-Gordon equations

1993

We consider in ℝ n+1,n≧2, the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation. We prove for such an equation that there is a neighbourhood of zero in a Hilbert space of initial conditions for which the Cauchy problem has global solutions and on which there is asymptotic completeness. The inverse of the wave operator linearizes the non-linear equation. If, moreover, the equation is manifestly Poincare covariant then the non-linear representation of the Poincare Lie algebra, associated with the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation is integrated to a non-linear representation of the Poincare group on an invariant neighbourhood of zero in the Hilbert space. This representation is linearized by the inverse of the …

Relativistic wave equations from supergroup quantization

1983

A formalism of geometric quantization recently introduced which is based on the consideration of Lie groups which are central extensions by U(1) is applied to the relativistic case by using the N-2 super Poincare group with a central charge.

Classical Field Theory of Gravitation

2012

The classical field theories developed in the preceding chapters all have in common that they are formulated on a flat spacetime, i.e. on a four-manifold which is a Euclidean space and which locally is decomposable into a direct product M 4 = ℝR3 ℝR of a physical space ℝR3 x of motions, and a time axis ℝRt. The first factor is the threedimensional space as it is perceived by an observer at rest while the time axis displays the (coordinate) time that he/she measures on his/her clocks. This spacetime is endowed with the Poincare group as the invariance group of physical laws and inherits the corresponding specific causality structure.

Fermion Fields and Their Properties

2011

The fundamental building blocks of matter, i.e. quarks and leptons, carry spin 1/2. There are two formally different but in essence equivalent methods of describing particles with spin: The representation theory of the Poincare group, in the framework of Wigner’s classification hypothesis of particles (see e.g. [QP07], Chap. 6), and the Van der Waerden spinor calculus based on SL(2, \(\mathbb{C}\)).

“The Important Thing is not to Stop Questioning”, Including the Symmetries on Which is Based the Standard Model

2014

New fundamental physical theories can, so far a posteriori, be seen as emerging from existing ones via some kind of deformation. That is the basis for Flato’s “deformation philosophy”, of which the main paradigms are the physics revolutions from the beginning of the twentieth century, quantum mechanics (via deformation quantization) and special relativity. On the basis of these facts we describe two main directions by which symmetries of hadrons (strongly interacting elementary particles) may “emerge” by deforming in some sense (including quantization) the Anti de Sitter symmetry (AdS), itself a deformation of the Poincare group of special relativity. The ultimate goal is to base on fundame…

Cohomology, central extensions, and (dynamical) groups

1985

We analyze in this paper the process of group contraction which allows the transition from the Einstenian quantum dynamics to the Galilean one in terms of the cohomology of the Poincare and Galilei groups. It is shown that the cohomological constructions on both groups do not commute with the contraction process. As a result, the extension coboundaries of the Poincare group which lead to extension cocycles of the Galilei group in the “nonrelativistic” limit are characterized geometrically. Finally, the above results are applied to a quantization procedure based on a group manifold.