Elko spinors revised

Negative-energy Spinors and the Fock Space of Lattice Fermions at Finite Chemical Potential (revised)

Recently it was suggested that the problem of species doubling with Kogut-Susskind lattice fermions entails, at finite chemical potential, a confusion of particles with an-tiparticles. What happens instead is that the familiar correspondence of positive-energy spinors to particles, and of negative-energy spinors to antiparticles, ceases to hold for the Kogut-Susskind time derivative. To show th...

SPINORS and

Delocalised Spinors

Solutions to the four-dimensional Euclidean Weyl equation in the background of a general JNR N -instanton are known to be normalisable and regular throughout four-space. We show that these solutions are asymptotically given by a linear combination of simple singular solutions to the free Weyl equation, which can be interpreted as localised spinors. The ‘spinorial’ data parameterising the asympt...

Do Spinors Frame-Drag?

We investigate the effect of the intrinsic spin of a fundamental spinor field on the surrounding spacetime geometry. We show that despite the lack of a rotating stress-energy source (and despite claims to the contrary) the intrinsic spin of a spin-half fermion gives rise to a frame-dragging effect analogous to that of orbital angular momentum, even in Einstein-Hilbert gravity where torsion is c...

Spinors and Octonions

Octonions are introduced through some spin representations. The groups G2, F4 and the E series appear in a natural manner; one way to understand octonions is as the “second coming” of the reals, but with the spinors instead of vectors. Some physical applications in M and F -theory as putative “theories of everything” are suggested. 1 The Seven Sphere . Consider the real, complex and quaternion ...