Relation of Isotopic Spin Space to Space-Time
- 1 May 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 106 (3) , 595-597
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.106.595
Abstract
The customary form of physical space as the direct product of space-time and isotopic spin space can be replaced by a certain fusion of these two spaces into one space if one widens the group from the Lorentz group to the conformal space-time group which endows particles with an intrinsic finite size. It is shown that the familiar space-time transformations continue to induce their familiar Dirac spinor transformations, while the new space-time transformations in general induce isotopic spin transformations as well. The detailed correspondence is worked out for a theory of bosons coupled to fermions.
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