Saturday, December 20, 2014

Is there a field equation which can reduce into all three flavors of spin (zero, one, one half)?


Is there a known particle field equation of a similar form (Γnπn)2Ψ=(mc)2Ψ

such that by reducing the number of degrees of freedom for the spinor Ψ into a spinor of lesser degrees of freedom, such as a scalar ψ0, two three-vectors ψ± or two two-vectors ϕ±, it reduces Eq. 1 into either ...




  • a spin zero field equation πnπnψ0=(mc)2ψ0,

  • a spin one field equation (Iπ0±iπ×)(Iπ0iπ×)ψ±=(mc)2ψ±

  • or a spin 1/2 field equation (Iπ0±σπ)(Iπ0σπ)ϕ±=(mc)2ϕ±?


In these expressions πn is the four-component momentum operator which includes the electromagnetic four-potential interaction An with the particle's charge q written as πn=inqAn,

and π=iqA
uses bold to indicate a euclidean vector, specific to 3-components. The three two-by-two matrices σ in Eq. 4 are the Pauli Spin Matrices.




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