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Generalization and Interpretation of Dirac's Positive-Energy Relativistic Wave Equation
We generalize Dirac's new equation so as to deacribe particles of mass m and arbitrary spin s. The same remarkable properties are found: positive energy, non-negative density, a conserved four-vector current, and the impossibility of minimal electromagnetic interaction. We show that the particles described by a subset of these equations are composites of two subparticles interacting by a relativistic action-at-a-distance interaction charactcrized by two harmonic oscillators. For these composite particles we find a linear relation between the square of the mass and the spin. We emphasizr that the essential content of the generalized new Dirac equation is that it constitutes an example of a convariant solution for two interacting particles, and provides an explicit examaple of a new quantal subdynamics distinct from the (classical) front relativistic dynamics of Dirac. (auth)
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A possible mechanism for CP nonconservation
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Hadronic regge sequences as primitive realizations of SL(3,R) symmetry☆
Abstract Four primitive infinite dimensional unitary representations of the group of rotations and deformations - SL(3,R) - are constructed and associated with the four Regge trajectories: π, ϱ, N, Δ. The model predicts E2 transition moments and a power law for E versus j consistent with the Chew-Frautschi relation E∼j 1 2 .
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Comment on the paper entitled «On the Poincaré noninvariance of a recent alternative to the Dirac equation»
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Diquark color excitation and the narrow resonances
The new narrow resonances are interpreted in the three-triplet model with integral baryon numbers as diquark color excitations of the qq +- q-barq-bar type. Hadronic decays, ..gamma.. transitions, and coupling to ..gamma.. occur through impurity qq-bar admixtures. Except for the coupling to ..gamma.., all decay rates are suppressed. The enhancements above 4 GeV in hadronic cross sections are attributed to qq-bar color octets or still higher diquark levels. (AIP)
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Three triplets, paraquarks, and ''colored'' quarks
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Asymptotics of spinfoam amplitude on simplicial manifold: Lorentzian theory
This paper studies the large-j asymptotics of the Lorentzian Engle–Pereira–Rovelli–Livine (EPRL) spinfoam amplitude on a 4D simplicial complex with an arbitrary number of simplices. The asymptotics of the spinfoam amplitude is determined by the critical configurations. Here we show that, given a critical configuration in general, there exists a partition of the simplicial complex into three types of regions and , where the three regions are simplicial sub-complexes with boundaries. The critical configuration implies different types of geometries in different types of regions, i.e. (1) the critical configuration restricted to implies a nondegenerate discrete Lorentzian geometry, (2) the critical configuration restricted to is degenerate of type-A in our definition of degeneracy, but it implies a nondegenerate discrete Euclidean geometry in , (3) the critical configuration restricted to is degenerate of type-B, and it implies a vector geometry in . With the critical configuration, we further make a subdivision of the regions and into sub-complexes (with boundaries) according to their Lorentzian/Euclidean oriented 4-volume V4(v) of the 4-simplices, such that sgn(V4(v)) is a constant sign on each sub-complex. Then in each sub-complex or , the spinfoam amplitude at the critical configuration gives the Regge action in a Lorentzian signature or an Euclidean signature respectively. The Regge action reproduced here contains a sign prefactor sgn(V4(v)) related to the oriented 4-volume of the 4-simplices. Therefore the Regge action reproduced here can be viewed as a discretized Palatini action with an on-shell connection. Finally, the asymptotic formula of the spinfoam amplitude is given by a sum of the amplitudes evaluated at all possible critical configurations, which are the products of the amplitudes associated with different types of geometries.
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Cosmological Constant in LQG Vertex Amplitude
A new q-deformation of the Euclidean EPRL/FK vertex amplitude is proposed by using the evaluation of the Vassiliev invariant associated with a 4-simplex graph (related to two copies of quantum SU(2) group at different roots of unity) embedded in a 3-sphere. We show that the large-j asymptotics of the q-deformed vertex amplitude gives the Regge action with a cosmological constant. In the end we also discuss its relation with a Chern-Simons theory on the boundary of 4-simplex.
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Commuting simplicity and closure constraints for 4D spin-foam models
Spin Foam Models are supposed to be discretised path integrals for quantum gravity constructed from the Plebanski-Holst action. The reason for there being several models currently under consideration is that no consensus has been reached for how to implement the simplicity constraints. Indeed, none of these models strictly follows from the original path integral with commuting B elds, rather, by some non standard manipulations one always ends up with non commuting B elds and the simplicity constraints become in fact anomalous which is the source for there being several inequivalent strategies to circumvent the associated problems. In this article, we construct a new Euclidian Spin Foam Model which is constructed by standard methods from the Plebanski-Holst path integral with commuting B elds discretised on a 4D simplicial complex. The resulting model diers from the current ones in several aspects, one of them being that the closure constraint needs special care. Only when dropping the closure constraint by hand and only in the large spin limit can the vertex amplitudes of this model be related to those of the FK Model but even then the face and edge amplitude dier. Interestingly, a non-commutative deformation of the B IJ variables leads from our new model to the BarrettCrane Model in the case of = 1.
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Five-dimensional Brans-Dicke theory and cosmic acceleration
We consider a 5-dimensional scalar-tensor theory which is a direct generalization of the original 4-dimensional Brans-Dicke theory to five dimensions. By assuming that there is a hypersurface-orthogonal spacelike Killing vector field in the underlying 5-dimensional spacetime, the theory is reduced to a 4-dimensional theory where the 4-metric is coupled with two scalar fields. The cosmological implication of this reduced theory is then studied in the Robertson-Walker model. It turns out that the two scalar fields may account naturally for the present accelerated expansion of our universe. The observational restriction of the reduced cosmological model is also analyzed.
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Canonical path-integral measures for Holst and Plebanski gravity: II. Gauge invariance and physical inner product
This paper serves as a continuation for the discussion in Engle et al (2010, Class. Quantum Grav. 27 245014). We analyze the invariance properties of the gravity path-integral measure derived from canonical framework and discuss which path-integral formula may be employed in the concrete computation e.g. constructing a spin-foam model, so that the final model can be interpreted as a physical inner product in the canonical theory. This paper is divided into two parts, the first part is concerning the gauge invariance of the canonical path-integral measure for gravity from the reduced phase space quantization. We show that the path-integral measure is invariant under all the gauge transformations generated by all the constraints. These gauge transformations are the local symmetries of the gravity action, which is implemented without anomaly at the quantum level by the invariant path-integral measure. However, these gauge transformations coincide with the spacetime diffeomorphisms only when the equations of motion are imposed. But the path-integral measure is not invariant under spacetime diffeomorphisms, i.e. the local symmetry of spacetime diffeomorphisms become anomalous in the reduced phase space path-integral quantization. In the second part, we present a path-integral formula, which formally solves all the quantum constraint equations of gravity, and further results in a rigging map in the sense of refined algebraic quantization (RAQ). Then we give a formal path-integral expression of the physical inner product in loop quantum gravity (LQG). This path-integral expression is simpler than the one from reduced phase space quantization, since all the gauge-fixing conditions are removed except the time gauge. The resulting path-integral measure is different from the product Lebesgue measure up to a local measure factor containing both the spacetime volume element and the spatial volume element. This formal path-integral expression of the physical inner product can be a starting point for constructing a spin-foam model.