mathematical physics, the gamma matrices, { γ 0 , γ 1 , γ 2 , γ 3 } , {\displaystyle \ \left\{\gamma ^{0},\gamma ^{1},\gamma ^{2},\gamma ^{3}\right\}\ ,} also...
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mathematical physics, higher-dimensional gamma matrices generalize to arbitrary dimension the four-dimensional Gamma matrices of Dirac, which are a mainstay of...
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In mathematical physics and mathematics, the Pauli matrices are a set of three 2 × 2 complex matrices that are traceless, Hermitian, involutory and unitary...
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by gamma matrices, matrices that satisfy a set of canonical anti-commutation relations. The spinors are the column vectors on which these matrices act...
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Bispinor (section The gamma matrices)
Let γμ denote a set of four 4-dimensional gamma matrices, here called the Dirac matrices. The Dirac matrices satisfy where { , } is the anticommutator...
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{\stackrel {\mathrm {def} }{=}}\ \gamma ^{0}A_{0}+\gamma ^{1}A_{1}+\gamma ^{2}A_{2}+\gamma ^{3}A_{3}} where γ are the gamma matrices. Using the Einstein summation...
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4-gradient. In practice one often writes the gamma matrices in terms of 2 × 2 sub-matrices taken from the Pauli matrices and the 2 × 2 identity matrix. Explicitly...
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Rotation matrix (redirect from Rotation matrices)
article. Rotation matrices are square matrices, with real entries. More specifically, they can be characterized as orthogonal matrices with determinant 1;...
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Dirac spinor (section Pauli matrices)
{I} \end{bmatrix}}} These two 4×4 matrices are related to the Dirac gamma matrices. Note that 0 and I are 2×2 matrices here. The next step is to look for...
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the gamma matrices, which represent the generators of the algebra. The gamma matrices are a set of four 4 × 4 {\displaystyle 4\times 4} matrices { γ μ...
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The Gell-Mann matrices, developed by Murray Gell-Mann, are a set of eight linearly independent 3×3 traceless Hermitian matrices used in the study of the...
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physics, 4×4 complex matrices or 8×8 real matrices are needed. Weyl–Brauer matrices Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Clifford module bundle Atiyah, Michael;...
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of the gamma matrices, including the Dirac, Weyl, and Majorana representations, that C γ μ = − γ μ T C {\displaystyle \,C\,\gamma _{\mu }=-\gamma _{\mu...
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the subspace spanned by the gamma matrices inside the Dirac algebra. The Lorentz group may be represented by 4×4 matrices Λ. The action of a Lorentz transformation...
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Matrix (mathematics) (redirect from Real matrices)
{\displaystyle 2\times 3} . Matrices are commonly related to linear algebra. Notable exceptions include incidence matrices and adjacency matrices in graph theory...
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Spin matrix (redirect from Spin matrices)
of matrices, which are related to Spin (physics). Pauli matrices, also called the "Pauli spin matrices". Generalizations of Pauli matrices Gamma matrices...
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for higher-dimensional gamma matrices, with an explicit construction for Weyl spinors given in the article on Weyl–Brauer matrices. Note, however, spinors...
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matrix gamma distribution and the Wishart distribution are multivariate generalizations of the gamma distribution (samples are positive-definite matrices rather...
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Wishart distribution (redirect from Wishart matrices)
positive-definite random matrices (i.e. matrix-valued random variables). These distributions are of great importance in the estimation of covariance matrices in multivariate...
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written as ln(x) or loge(x). In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by Γ, capital Greek letter gamma) is the most common extension of the factorial...
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equation Generalizations of Pauli matrices Wigner D-matrix Weyl–Brauer matrices Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Joos–Weinberg equation, alternative...
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Spin (physics) (section Pauli matrices)
{\left({\tfrac {1}{8}}\omega _{\mu \nu }[\gamma _{\mu },\gamma _{\nu }]\right)}\psi ,} where γν are gamma matrices, and ωμν is an antisymmetric 4 × 4 matrix...
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}^{ab}\gamma _{ab}\psi _{\nu },} where γ a b = γ [ a γ b ] {\displaystyle \gamma _{ab}=\gamma _{[a}\gamma _{b]}} . The regular gamma matrices satisfying...
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transform under Lorentz transformations generated by the gamma matrices ( γ μ {\displaystyle \gamma _{\mu }} ). It can be shown that the scalar product ⟨...
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{j}})} . Taking μ = 0 and using the relation for gamma matrices ( γ 0 ) 2 = I {\displaystyle \left(\gamma ^{0}\right)^{2}=I} , the probability density becomes...
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article lists some important classes of matrices used in mathematics, science and engineering. A matrix (plural matrices, or less commonly matrixes) is a rectangular...
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★. Consider the gamma matrices in the examples given above. The formula defining the fifth gamma matrix ( γ 5 {\displaystyle \gamma _{5}} ) shows that...
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numbers can be represented as matrices, so can quaternions. There are at least two ways of representing quaternions as matrices in such a way that quaternion...
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compartmented information Gamma matrices, in mathematical physics The Gamma People, a 1956 British-American film Gama (disambiguation) Gamma ray (disambiguation)...
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Schrödinger equation (section Density matrices)
^{0}q\varphi \right],} in which the γ = (γ1, γ2, γ3) and γ0 are the Dirac gamma matrices related to the spin of the particle. The Dirac equation is true for...
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