DIRAC OPERATOR ON A CONFORMAL SURFACE IMMERSED IN ℝ4: A WAY TO FURTHER GENERALIZED WEIERSTRASS EQUATION

Abstract

In the previous report (J. Phys.A30 (1997) 4019–4029), I showed that the Dirac operator defined over a conformal surface immersed in ℝ3 by means of confinement procedure is identified with the differential operator of the generalized Weierstrass equation and the Lax operator of the modified Novikov–Veselov (MNV) equation. In this article, using the same procedure, I determine the Dirac operator defined over a conformal surface immersed in ℝ4, which is for a Dirac field confined in the surface. Then it is reduced to the Lax operators of the nonlinear Schrödinger and the MNV equations by taking appropriate limits. It means that the Dirac operator is related to the further generalized Weierstrass equation for a surface in ℝ4.