Classical algebraic chromodynamics
- 15 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 17 (12) , 3212-3224
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.17.3212
Abstract
I develop an extension of the usual equations of chromodynamics which permits the consistent introduction of classical, noncommuting quark source charges. The extension involves adding a singlet gluon, giving a -based theory with outer product which obeys the Jacobi identity, inner product , and with the gluon fields elevated to algebraic fields over the quark color charge algebra. I show that provided the color charge algebra satisfies the condition for all elements , , of the algebra, all the standard derivations of Lagrangian chromodynamics continue to hold in the algebraic chromodynamics case. I analyze in detail the color charge algebra in the two-particle () case and show that the above consistency condition is satisfied for the following unique (and, interstingly, asymmetric) choice of quark and antiquark charges: , with , . The algebraic structure of the two-particle
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