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The Dirac equation, as the relativistic equation that describes spin 1/2 particles in quantum mechanics can be written in terms of the Algebra of physical space (APS), which is a case of a Clifford algebra or geometric algebra that is based in the use of paravectors. The Dirac equation in APS, including the electromagnetic interaction, reads : Another form of the Dirac equation in terms of the Space time algebra was given earlier by David Hestenes. In general, the Dirac equation in the formalism of geometric algebra has the advantage of providing a direct geometric interpretation. ==Relation with the standard form== The spinor can be written in a null basis as : such that the representation of the spinor in terms of the Pauli matrices is : : The standard form of the Dirac equation can be recovered by decomposing the spinor in its right and left-handed spinor components, which are extracted with the help of the projector : such that : : with the following matrix representation : : The Dirac equation can be also written as : Without electromagnetic interaction, the following equation is obtained from the two equivalent forms of the Dirac equation : so that : or in matrix representation : where the second column of the right and left spinors can be dropped by defining the single column chiral spinors as : : The standard relativistic covariant form of the Dirac equation in the Weyl representation can be easily identified such that : Given two spinors and in APS and their respective spinors in the standard form as and , one can verify the following identity :, such that : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dirac equation in the algebra of physical space」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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