"MINIMAL GEOMETRIC DATA" APPROACH TO DIRAC ALGEBRA, SPINOR GROUPS AND FIELD THEORIES

Abstract

The first three sections contain an updated, not-so-short account of a partly original approach to spinor geometry and field theories introduced by Jadczyk and myself [3–5]; it is based on an intrinsic treatment of 2-spinor geometry in which the needed background structures do not need to be assumed, but rather arise naturally from a unique geometric datum: a vector bundle with complex 2-dimensional fibers over a real 4-dimensional manifold. The following two sections deal with Dirac algebra and 4-spinor groups in terms of two spinors, showing various aspects of spinor geometry from a different perspective. The last section examines particle momenta in 2-spinor terms and the bundle structure of 4-spinor space over momentum space.