Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2007-01-09
Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol.117 (2007), pp.501-532
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
37pages, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTP.117.501
It is shown that a subgroup of $SL(2,{\mathbb H})$, denoted $Spin(2,{\mathbb H})$ in this paper, which is defined by two conditions in addition to unit quaternionic determinant, is locally isomorphic to the restricted Lorentz group, $L_+^\uparrow$. On the basis of the Dirac theory using the spinor group $Spin(2,{\mathbb H})$, in which the charge conjugation transformation becomes linear in the quaternionic Dirac spinor, it is shown that the Hermiticity requirement of the Dirac Lagrangian, together with the persistent presence of the Pauli-G\"ursey SU(2) group, requires an additional imaginary unit (taken to be the ordinary one, $i$) that commutes with Hamilton's units, in the theory. A second quantization is performed with this $i$ incorporated into the theory, and we recover the conventional Dirac theory with an automatic `anti-symmetrization' of the field operators. It is also pointed out that we are naturally led to the scheme of complex quaternions, ${\mathbb H}^c$, in which a space-time point is represented by a Hermitian quaternion, and that the isomorphism $SL(1,{\mathbb H}^c)/Z_2\cong L_+^\uparrow$ is a direct consequence of the fact $Spin(2,{\mathbb H})/Z_2\cong L_+^\uparrow$. Using $SL(1,{\mathbb H}^c)\cong SL(2,{\mathbb C})$, we make explicit the Weyl spinor indices of the spinor-quaternion, which is the Dirac spinor defined over ${\mathbb H}^c$.
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