Geometry of matter and antimatter by the coadjoint action of a group

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  • This document explores the geometrization of matter and antimatter through the coadjoint action of a group on its momentum space. It presents a geometric definition of antimatter.
  • The momentum is described as a set of 10 components, including energy, momentum, the run vector, and an antisymmetric tensor. These components are organized in the form of a
  • The article examines the impact of the different components of the Poincaré group on the momentum. It discusses the transformations of energy, momentum, and the spin tensor under different

f4202 Geometrization of matter and antimatter through the coadjoint action of a group on its momentum space. 1 :
Charges as additional scalar components of the momentum of a group acting on a 10-dimensional space.
Geometrical definition of antimatter. (p2) – A third component :

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constructed from the component $L_t$ of the Lorentz group.

– and a fourth :

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constructed from the component $L_{st}$ of the Lorentz group.

A group acts on its momentum space [1]. Let $J_p$ denote the momentum space associated with the Poincaré group.

...Each particular element J$_p$ of $J_p$ corresponds to a particular movement of a relativistic mass point, described by this group. One can compute the coadjoint action of the group on the momentum [1].

The momentum is a set of 10 components (equal to the dimension of the group). These components are :

(16) J$_p$ = { $E$, $p_x$, $p_y$, $p_z$, $f_x$, $f_y$, $f_z$, $s_x$, $s_y$, $s_z$ } = { $E$, p, f, s }

$E$ is the energy.
p is the momentum vector :

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f is the passage vector [1].

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s is an antisymmetric (3,3) matrix, whose independent components are
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{ $s_x$, $s_y$, $s_z$ }

The momentum can be arranged in matrix form [1], with :

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and :

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Introduce the four-vector of momentum-energy :

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or :

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Then the coadjoint action of the Poincaré group can be written in matrix form :

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More explicitly :

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...It is interesting to study the effect of the different components of the complete Poincaré group on the components of its momentum space. One can focus on specific matrices :

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A is the Lorentz matrix associated.

The coadjoint action gives :

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where $I_4$ is the neutral component of the complete Poincaré group.

The corresponding coadjoint action is :
$E \mapsto E$ ; p $\mapsto$ p ; f $\mapsto$ f ; s $\mapsto$ s

— which reverses space. The corresponding coadjoint action is :

$E \mapsto E$ ; p $\mapsto$ –p ; f $\mapsto$ –f ; s $\mapsto$ s

— which reverses time. The corresponding coadjoint action is :

$E \mapsto$ –$E$ ; p $\mapsto$ p ; f $\mapsto$ –f ; s $\mapsto$ s

— which reverses both space and time. The corresponding coadjoint action is :

$E \mapsto$ –$E$ ; p $\mapsto$ –p ; f $\mapsto$ f ; s $\mapsto$ s

As pointed out by J.M. Souriau [1], the two components

\begin{pmatrix} E \ \mathbf{p} \end{pmatrix}

are accompanied by the inversion of the energy $E \mapsto$ –$E$, which implies the inversion of the mass $m \mapsto$ –$m$.

Define the following sets of matrices :

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