Lanczos's equation as a way out of the spin 3/2 crisis?
| dc.creator | Gsponer, Andre | |
| dc.creator | Hurni, Jean-Pierre | |
| dc.date | 2002-10-30 | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:29:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:29:32Z | |
| dc.description | It is shown (1) that Lanczos's quaternionic formulation of Dirac's equation does not lead to a solution of the problems that plague the standard spin 3/2 theory based on the Rarita-Schwinger equation, but (2) that the four-component solutions to the quaternionic generalization of Dirac's equation proposed by Lanczos in 1929 may provide a consistent theory for spin 3/2 particles, although at the cost of giving up the postulate that there should be a one-to-one correspondence between arbitrary-high-spin unitary representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group and elementary particles. | |
| dc.description | To appear in the special issue of "Hadronic Journal" on higher-spins and strong interactions, 24 pages, 2 tables, 1 appendix | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0210055 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0210055 | |
| dc.identifier | Hadronic J. 26 (2003) 327-350 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/57193 | |
| dc.subject | Mathematical Physics | |
| dc.title | Lanczos's equation as a way out of the spin 3/2 crisis? | |
| dc.type | text |