Quaternionic Spin
| dc.creator | Dray, Tevian | |
| dc.creator | Manogue, Corinne A. | |
| dc.date | 1999-10-01 | |
| dc.date | 1999-10-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:27:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:27:07Z | |
| dc.description | We rewrite the standard 4-dimensional Dirac equation in terms of quaternionic 2-component spinors, leading to a formalism which treats both massive and massless particles on an equal footing. The resulting unified description has the correct particle spectrum to be a generation of leptons, with the correct number of spin/helicity states. Furthermore, precisely three such generations naturally combine into an octonionic description of the 10-dimensional massless Dirac equation, as discussed in previous work. | |
| dc.description | LaTeX2e, 15 pages, 1 PS figure; to appear in Clifford '99 proceedings | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910010 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910010 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/56304 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Quaternionic Spin | |
| dc.type | text |