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Geometry, Zitterbewegung, quantization

DIME, Sez. Metodi e Modelli Matematici, Università di Genova, Via all’Opera Pia 15, 16145 Genova, Italy

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887819501469Cited by:9 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In the most general geometric background, we study the Dirac spinor fields with particular emphasis given to the explicit form of their gauge momentum and the way in which this can be inverted so as to give the expression of the corresponding velocity; we study how Zitterbewegung affects the motion of particles, focusing on the internal dynamics involving the chiral parts; we discuss the connections to field quantization, sketching in what way anomalous terms may be gotten eventually.

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