Classification of the Dirac equation with an external SU(3) gauge field admitting a first-order symmetry operator of special type

A classification is performed of massless gauge fields admitting one first-order symmetry operator of special type for the Dirac equation in Minkowski space. The gauge group is chosen to be SU(3). The factors multiplying the derivatives of the symmetry operator do not contain generators of the gauge group, which allows us to classify the fields according to symmetry operators of the free Dirac equation.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 22–21, June, 1989.     

5D Dirac Equation in Induced-Matter Theory

According to an induced-matter approach, Liu and Wesson obtained the rest mass of a typical particle from the reduction of a 5D Klein–Gordon equation to a 4D one. Introducing an extra-dimension momentum operator identified with the rest mass eigenvalue operator, we consider a way to generalize the 4D Dirac equation to 5D. An analogous normal Dirac equation is gained when the generalization reduces to 4D. We find the rest mass of a particle in curved space varies with spacetime coordinates and check this for the case of exact solitonic and cosmological solution of the 5D vacuum gravitational field equations.     

Fermi field and Dirac oscillator in a Som–Raychaudhuri space-time

We investigate the relativistic dynamics of a Dirac field in the Som–Raychaudhuri space-time, which is described by a Gödel-type metric and a stationary cylindrical symmetric solution of Einstein field equations for a charged dust distribution in rigid rotation. In order to analyze the effect of various physical parameters of this space-time, we solve the Dirac equation in the Som–Raychaudhuri space-time and obtain the energy levels and eigenfunctions of the Dirac operator by using the Nikiforov–Uvarov method. We also examine the behaviour of the Dirac oscillator in the Som–Raychaudhuri space-time, in particular, the effect of its frequency and the vorticity parameter.     

Differential equation for spectral flows of hermitean Wilson–Dirac operator

Establishing an exact relation for the derivative we show that the eigenvalue flows of the hermitean Wilson–Dirac operator obey a differential equation. We obtain a complete overview of the characteristic features of its solutions. The underlying mathematical aspects are fully clarified.     

Solution of the Dirac Equation on the Bertotti–Robinson Metric

It is shown that each component of the Dirac field satisfies a decoupled equation, which admits separable solutions, when the background spacetime is the Bertotti–Robinson metric, which is a solution of the Einstein vacuum field equations with a cosmological constant. Furthermore, the seperated functions appearing in the solutions are shown to obey identities of the Teukolsky–Starobinsky type and the separable solutions are shown to be eigenfunctions of a certain differential operator.     

Determinants,Grassmanniannians and Elliptic Boundary Problems for the Dirac Operator

We study the relations between different determinants of the Dirac operator over a manifold with boundary considered as sections of a holomorphic line bundle over the Grassmannian of boundary conditions of Atiyah–Patodi–Singer type.     

Stable Directions for Small Nonlinear Dirac Standing Waves

We prove that for a Dirac operator, with no resonance at thresholds nor eigenvalue at thresholds, the propagator satisfies propagation and dispersive estimates. When this linear operator has only two simple eigenvalues sufficiently close to each other, we study an associated class of nonlinear Dirac equations which have stationary solutions. As an application of our decay estimates, we show that these solutions have stable directions which are tangent to the subspaces associated with the continuous spectrum of the Dirac operator. This result is the analogue, in the Dirac case, of a theorem by Tsai and Yau about the Schrödinger equation. To our knowledge, the present work is the first mathematical study of the stability problem for a nonlinear Dirac equation     

A non‐uniqueness problem of the Dirac theory in a curved spacetime

The Dirac equation in a curved spacetime depends on a field of coefficients (essentially the Dirac matrices), for which a continuum of different choices are possible. We study the conditions under which a change of the coefficient fields leads to an equivalent Hamiltonian operator H, or to an equivalent energy operator E. We do that for the standard version of the gravitational Dirac equation, and for two alternative equations based on the tensor representation of the Dirac fields. The latter equations may be defined when the spacetime is four‐dimensional, noncompact, and admits a spinor structure. We find that, for each among the three versions of the equation, the vast majority of the possible coefficient changes do not lead to an equivalent operator H, nor to an equivalent operator E, whence a lack of uniqueness. In particular, we prove that the Dirac energy spectrum is not unique. This non‐uniqueness of the energy spectrum comes from an effect of the choice of coefficients, and applies in any given coordinates.     

Darboux Transformation of the Nonstationary Dirac Equation

The method of differential transformation operators is applied to the Dirac equation with the generalized form of the time-dependent potential. It is demonstrated that the transformation operator and the transformed potential are solutions of the initial equation. It is established that under certain conditions, an integral expression can be retrieved for the transformed potential. Examples of new potentials expressed through elementary functions are presented for which the Dirac equation can be solved exactly.__________Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 34–41, April, 2005.     

Klein–Gordon and Dirac Equations in de Sitter Space–Time

We present and discuss the Klein–Gordonand Dirac wave equations in the de Sitter universe. Toobtain the Dirac wave equation we use the factorizationof the second-order invariant Casimir operatorassociated to the Fantappie–de Sitter group. Boththe Klein–Gordon and Dirac wave equations arediscussed in terms of the spherical harmonics with spinweight. A particular case of Dirac wave equation issolved in terms of a new class of polynomials.     

Supersymmetric Content of the Dirac and Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau Equations

We study subsolutions of the Dirac and Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equations described in our earlier papers. It is shown that subsolutions of the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equations and those of the Dirac equation obey the same Dirac equation with some built-in projection operator. This covariant equation can be referred to as supersymmetric since it has bosonic as well as fermionic degrees of freedom.     

A simple derivation of the overlap Dirac operator

We derive the vector-like four-dimensional overlap Dirac operator starting from a five-dimensional Dirac action in the presence of a delta-function space–time defect. The effective operator is obtained by first integrating out all the fermionic modes in the fixed gauge background, and then identifying the contribution from the localized modes as the determinant of an operator in one dimension less. We define physically relevant degrees of freedom on the defect by introducing an auxiliary defect-bound fermion field and integrating out the original five-dimensional bulk fields.     

New exact solutions of the dirac equation. XII

The search for exact solutions of the Dirac equation begun in [1] is continued. We find three new types of external electromagnetic fields where the Dirac equation, Klein-Gordon equation, and classical Lorentz equation can be solved exactly. We find fields for which explicit solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation can be found but for which explicit solutions of the Dirac equation cannot.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 81–86, January, 1985.     

Spin connection resonance in magnetic motors

A mechanism is proposed for rotation of magnetic assemblies by a torque consisting of the magnetic dipole moment of the assembly and a magnetic field generated from space–time in Einstein–Cartan–Evans (ECE) field theory. It is shown that when the magnetic assembly is stationary, the space–time is described by a Helmholtz wave equation in the tetrad as eigenfunction. This is a balance condition in which the Cartan torsion of the space–time is zero, but in which the tetrad and spin connection are non-zero. This balance may be broken by a driving current density produced by the magnetic assembly. The Helmholtz equation becomes an undamped oscillator equation. At resonance the torque on the magnetic assembly may be amplified sufficiently to cause the whole assembly to rotate, as observed experimentally in a repeatable and reproducible manner.     

Relativistic Lagrangians for the Lorentz–Dirac equation

We present two types of relativistic Lagrangians for the Lorentz–Dirac equation written in terms of an arbitrary world-line parameter. One of the Lagrangians contains an exponential damping function of the proper time and explicitly depends on the world-line parameter. Another Lagrangian includes additional cross-terms consisting of auxiliary dynamical variables and does not depend explicitly on the world-line parameter. We demonstrate that both the Lagrangians actually yield the Lorentz–Dirac equation with a source-like term.     

A Modified Theory of Gravity with Torsion and Its Applications to Cosmology and Particle Physics

In this paper we consider the most general least-order derivative theory of gravity in which not only curvature but also torsion is explicitly present in the Lagrangian, and where all independent fields have their own coupling constant: we will apply this theory to the case of ELKO fields, which is the acronym of the German Eigenspinoren des LadungsKonjugationsOperators designating eigenspinors of the charge conjugation operator, and thus they are a Majorana-like special type of spinors; and to the Dirac fields, the most general type of spinors. We shall see that because torsion has a coupling constant that is still undetermined, the ELKO and Dirac field equations are endowed with self-interactions whose coupling constant is undetermined: we discuss different applications according to the value of the coupling constants and the different properties that consequently follow. We highlight that in this approach, the ELKO and Dirac field’s self-interactions depend on the coupling constant as a parameter that may even make these non-linearities manifest at subatomic scales.     

Dirac wave equation in the de Sitter universe

We present and discuss the Dirac wave equation in the de Sitter universe. This equation is obtained by factoring the second-order Casimir invariant operator associated to the Fantappié-de Sitter group.     

Charge Conservation,Klein’s Paradox and the Concept of Paulions in the Dirac Electron Theory

An algebraic block-diagonalization of the Dirac Hamiltonian in a time-independent external field reveals a charge-index conservation law which forbids the physical phenomena of the Klein paradox type and guarantees a single-particle nature of the Dirac equation in strong external fields. Simultaneously, the method defines simpler quantum-mechanical objects—paulions and antipaulions, whose 2-component wave functions determine the Dirac electron states through exact operator relations. Based on algebraic symmetry, the presented theory leads to a new understanding of the Dirac equation physics, including new insight into the Dirac measurements and a consistent scheme of relativistic quantum mechanics of electron in the paulion representation. Along with analysis of the mathematical anatomy of the Klein paradox falsity, a complete set of paradox-free eigenfunctions for the Klein problem is obtained and investigated via stationary solutions of the Pauli-like equations with respective paulion Hamiltonians. It is shown that the physically correct Dirac states in the Klein zone are characterized by the total particle reflection from the potential step and satisfy the fundamental charge-index conservation law.     

Dirac operators on Lagrangian submanifolds

We study a natural Dirac operator on a Lagrangian submanifold of a Kähler manifold. We first show that its square coincides with the Hodge–de Rham Laplacian provided the complex structure identifies the spin structures of the tangent and normal bundles of the submanifold. We then give extrinsic estimates for the eigenvalues of that operator and discuss some examples.     

Killing spinors on Lorentzian manifolds

The aim of this paper is to describe some results concerning the geometry of Lorentzian manifolds admitting Killing spinors. We prove that there are imaginary Killing spinors on simply connected Lorentzian Einstein–Sasaki manifolds. In the Riemannian case, an odd-dimensional complete simply connected manifold (of dimension n≠7) is Einstein–Sasaki if and only if it admits a non-trivial Killing spinor to . The analogous result does not hold in the Lorentzian case. We give an example of a non-Einstein Lorentzian manifold admitting an imaginary Killing spinor. A Lorentzian manifold admitting a real Killing spinor is at least locally a codimension one warped product with a special warping function. The fiber of the warped product is either a Riemannian manifold with a real or imaginary Killing spinor or with a parallel spinor, or it again is a Lorentzian manifold with a real Killing spinor. Conversely, all warped products of that form admit real Killing spinors.