Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-05-12
Found.Phys.34:815-842,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
RevTeX 4, 13 pages. Revision (12-21-03) mostly verbal, reference, and other minor corrections and improvements; (8-10-03) verb
Scientific paper
10.1023/B:FOOP.0000022188.90097.
Requiring covariance of Maxwell's equations without {\it a priori} imposing charge invariance allows for both spin-1 and spin-1/2 transformations of the complete Maxwell field and current. The spin-1/2 case yields new transformation rules, with new invariants, for all traditional Maxwell field and source quantities. The accompanying spin-1/2 representations of the Lorentz group employ the Minkowski metric, and consequently the primary spin-1/2 Maxwell invariants are also spin-1 invariants; for example, $\Phi^2 - {\bf A}^2$, ${\bf E}^2 - {\bf B}^2 + 2i {\bf E} \bm{\cdot} {\bf B} - ({\partial}_{0}{\Phi} + {\bm{\nabla \cdot}}{\bf A})^2$. The associated Maxwell Lagrangian density is also the same for both spin-1 and spin-1/2 fields. However, in the spin-1/2 case, standard field and source quantities are complex and both charge and gauge invariance are lost. Requiring the potentials to satisfy the Klein-Gordon equation equates the Maxwell and field-potential equations with two Dirac equations of the Klein-Gordon mass, and thus one complex Klein-Gordon Maxwell field describes either two real vector fields or two Dirac fields, all of the same mass.
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