Graded Majorana spinors

Graded Majorana spinors

In many mathematical and physical contexts spinors are treated as Grassmann odd valued fields. We show that it is possible to extend the classification of reality conditions on such spinors by a new type of Majorana condition. In order to define this graded Majorana condition we make use of pseudo-conjugation, a rather unfamiliar extension of complex conjugation to supernumbers. Like the symple...

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 ...