On the Origin of Charge-Asymmetric Matter. I. Geometry of the Dirac Field ()
Received 25 February 2016; accepted 25 April 2016; published 28 April 2016

1. Introduction
The present study concludes that, for the Dirac field, C and P do not exist separately, and that both are inti- mately connected to inevitable localization of the Dirac field into finite-sized particles. Furthermore, it appears that only positive charges are capable of stable auto-localization in real world. The time scale and relative weight of all the underlying processes and/or mechanisms are not yet clear, but the Universe definitely had enough time to conduct such an experiment. Moreover, experimental studies of the last decade [6] revealed a surprising excess of positrons (and no excess of antiprotons) in the cosmic rays, which can be an indication that creation of the charge-asymmetric matter in the Universe is an ongoing process.
The present work was supposed to correct and augment the author’s paper [7] , which was focused mainly on the transient processes with localized particles. The accents have changed with the initial progress. In this work and then in paper [8] , we pursue a somewhat narrower goal to find an exact auto-localized solution (a realistic Dirac particle), which could serve as an input for the study of transient processes. The problem is posed and solved in a novel framework of the matter-induced affine geometry, which deduces geometric relations in the space-time continuum from the dynamic properties of the Dirac field.
Framework is set in Section 2 by reviewing well-known algebraic identities between the bilinear Dirac forms (the Fierz identities). At any point in spacetime continuum (the principal differentiable manifold
), there exist four fields of quadruples of these forms (the Dirac currents), which are linearly independent and Lorentz- orthogonal, and can serve as local algebraic basis for any four-dimensional vector space, including the infini- tesimal displacements in coordinate space
.
In Section 3 we use this basis of four Dirac currents as the Cartan’s moving frame in spacetime and develop the technique of covariant derivatives for the vector and spinor fields.
Relying on results of Section 2 and Section 3, we meticulously derive in Section 4 various differential iden- tities from the Dirac equations of motion. These identities are shown to be imperative for the geometry of the objects associated with the Dirac field to have a covariant form and be independent of coordinate background. We discover that coordinate lines and surfaces cannot be chosen by a fiat―the Dirac field cannot be embedded into a coordinate basis
(this observation had triggered the present work starting from [7] , where the key argument regarding localization was found). In Section 5 the differential identities for the divergences and curls of the Dirac currents are written down in terms of components, and properties of the congruences of the Dirac currents are analyzed. All components of the connections are found as functions of the Dirac field. These two steps finalize the formal design of the physical affine geometry. There are only a few digressions regarding physical meaning of some equations, the most important of which is related to the existence of the matter- defined world time
and the local time slowdown. The latter is the main physical mechanism behind the auto- localization. It appears that, in order to be compatible with the Dirac equation, its coordinate basis indeed cannot be holonomic.
The known connections made it possible to examine the properties of the admissible coordinate systems. Among four tetrad vector fields, we find in Section 6.1 two integrable subsets of three PDEs for the coordinate lines (two hypersurfaces with the corresponding normal congruences) and two two-dimensional surfaces. In Section 6.2 we study the internal geometry of these surfaces as submanifolds of
. It appears that the two- dimensional surface of the constant “world time” and “radius” can be only spherical, which seems to be in- evitable for an isolated stable object.
The general properties of coordinate surfaces in
(like their spherical symmetry and inherent stability) are discovered in the present paper without any assumptions on the nature of an ambient space or Dirac field. It appears that the main qualitative characteristic of the stationary Dirac object is the direction of the axial current, which can point only outward or inward. It must be clearly understood that the locally defined notions of out- ward and inward are prerequisites for any reasonable discussion of the localization phenomenon. The frame- work of the matter-induced affine geometry not only ideally fits this goal but also explains the auto-localization, as it is seen in the real world, as an intrinsic property of the Dirac field.
This paper is continued in Ref. [8] , where the capabilities of the matter-induced affine geometry are employed to address a specific problem of existence of the auto-localized Dirac waveforms. We begin with writing down the nonlinear Dirac equation and putting it in a practically solvable form. The localized configurations of the Dirac field are found analytically in the absence of external electromagnetic field. They require the Dirac spinor to have only up- or only down-components, when the axial current is pointing outward or inward, respectively. The up-mode is stable, has a bump of invariant density and the negative energy
, while the down-mode is unstable, has a dip and the positive energy
. At large spatial distances the invariant density has a universal vacuum unity value. Therefore, the two modes were (by a fortunate coincidence!) properly inter- preted as positive and negative charges. The decay of unstable mode is due to the charged Dirac currents that naturally oscillate as
, such a decay requiring only the presence of an external electromagnetic field. Possibly, these facts explain the vivid global charge (eventually, baryonic one) asymmetry in the Universe. Last section of paper [8] summarizes ideas, methods, current results and perspectives.
2. Vectors at a Point. Algebra of the Dirac Currents
1. Mathematical framework. We consider, as usually, the mathematical spacetime as a smooth four- dimensional manifold
so that every point P of
has an open neighborhood that can be mapped one-to-
one onto an opened subset of points
. From the viewpoint of the differential topology, one
has to start with scalar functions
on the curves
(determined by a map
,
) in order to build at each point
the linear space
of tangent 4-vectors
(2.1)
with the components
with respect to the linearly independent vectors
of the coordinate basis in
.
Being defined via the mapping
, a curve and its tangent vectors are invariant objects; only the components
of a vector explicitly depend on a particular choice of coordinates in
. Action of operator (2.1) on the functions
yields the system of ODEs for the unknown
,
. It is said that
are components of a vector if they are transformed as components
of a displacement
.
Any four linearly independent vectors
, (with the non-degenerate matrix
,
) can be used as the basis. Then there also exists the inverse matrix
of the 1-forms
so
that
and
. Since any quadruple
of numbers can be expanded over the basis
, we have
. Therefore,
and
, but in general,
are not the total differentials of any independent variables.
2. Physical framework. Basis of Dirac currents. In physical spacetime of special relativity points P are associated with events. The clocks of the net that register these events are synchronized by light signals; this results in Lorentz transformations between the coordinates of events measured by the nets of different inertial observers. Special relativity is based on independence of all physical processes from a particular choice of an inertial frame, and thus from the coordinate basis that is used to parameterize the events. As a matter of fact, the coordinate basis is built into a material reference frame, and thus is an invariant object.
All mathematical treatments of affine or Riemannian geometry start with an assumption of the independent tangent space with an arbitrarily oriented normal basis at every point of the continuum (differentiable manifold). While invariance with respect to the choice of coordinates
is trivial, there cannot be absolute freedom of choosing tetrad vectors at every point―the components
of tetrad vectors must be continuous functions of the coordinates. Is there a way to endow the principal manifold
with basis of vector fields that would be invariant objects without reference to curves and/or derivatives at a point? For the physical four-dimensional spacetime the answer is affirmative, because there exists a matter field, the Dirac field
, a coordinate scalar, that provides such a basis at each point P of the manifold
and assigns the latter the status of a phy- sical object. The algebraic descendants of the Dirac field are the vector-like objects, the so-called Dirac currents,
(2.2)
of which the last two are the real and imaginary parts of the complex “matrix element” between the two charge- conjugated configurations,
and
, where
is the charge-conjugate spinor.
The components
of the currents
depend only on the Dirac field and on a particular choice of the matrices
at the point P. The numbers
are the coordinate scalars but are dubbed components of the “vector current”. Another four real numbers,
, are associated with the components of the “axial current”. The idea to use
and
as the tetrad vectors was first spelled out in Ref. [9] .
In these definitions, an explicit form of the Dirac matrices
,
and
(a = 0, 1, 2, 3;
), is not specified; it is only required that they satisfy commutation relations,
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and, in general, they are not just numeric matrices. One can resort to a particular set of numerical matrices
and
only in conjunction with the corresponding tetrad basis
1.
3. Fierz identities. Completeness of the basis. It appears that the four quadruples,
(
), along with the scalar
and pseudoscalar
, satisfy the following identities2,
(2.3)
where
is the Minkowski tensor (which was not contemplated to be here) and
,... The Dirac currents
are almost always linearly independent3. In what follows, unless
stated otherwise, we will consider only “regular” domains where
and use, instead of
, the nor-
malized currents
. The matrix
is not degenerate and thus has an inverse matrix
,
(2.4)
By virtue of Equation (2.3), at every point P of the basic manifold
the currents
form a complete (in the sense of linear algebra) system of orthogonal (with respect to the “ metric”
) unit “vectors”,
(2.5)
The vector
is timelike while the other three are spacelike. It is also straightforward to check the following identities,
(2.6)
and also that the
is the solution of the linear system,
. Therefore, all indices are moved up and down by the Minkowski
or
, which is nothing but a consequence of the Fierz identities.
At every point
, any quadruple of scalar fields
, regardless of its origin, can be presented as a linear combination of the basic quadruples
determined by the Dirac field
,
(2.7)
where
are the components of the
with respect to the basis
.
4. An intermediate tetrad basis. The components
of a quadruple
clearly cannot be asso- ciated with a tangent vector like (2.1) simply because the former are defined only in terms of the invariant com- ponents straight in the principal manifold
(!), while definition of the latter requires a reference to an arith- metic
, and its components are not invariant. Despite being complete, the system
cannot immediately serve as a basis for the tangent vectors (2.1). Its completeness is purely algebraic by nature, while linear in- dependence and completeness of the system
is analytic and is always traced back to linear in- dependence of the vectors of the basis
(the linear vector space over
).
An invariant representation of vector
is possible only together with a system of the basic vectors
; then it can be replaced by scalars, the tetrad components of the vector s,
. Now, one can use (2.7) to expand the four scalars
over the system ![]()
(2.8)
and interpret the quantities
as the components of such a vector
in coordinate basis that the scalars
are the components of
in the basis
. The system of ODEs for the unknown
,
, defines the integral lines of the vector fields
. It is also clear that the matrix
is the inverse of matrix
, viz.
, and
.
Let
in Equation (2.8) be one of the vectors of the basis
(or of the basis
). Then
and
, which results in
(2.9)
Since
, the inverse matrix
is uniquely defined; therefore,
(2.10)
The components of the tetrad vectors
with respect to the basis
must have invariant values (2.10). These equations together with normalization conditions (2.5) and unitarity,
, allow one to interpret
as the matrix of a local Lorentz rotation between the bases
and
with para- meters that are determined by the Dirac field
4. So far, as long as we are confined to a point, we must refrain from associating this rotation with the physical Lorentz transformations of special relativity.
Since
are immediately defined as the fields over entire manifold
, we expect that if two systems,
and
, do exist, they are isomorphic not only in tangent
but even as fields over
. The question is whether the integral lines of the vector fields
and/or
can form a coordinate net.
5. An auxiliary fundamental tensor (not a metric). It takes simple algebra to verify that at the point
the objects
(2.11)
can be used to move the coordinate (Greek) indices up and down. Indeed, ![]()
With
thus defined, we also have the formal relations
(2.12)
which can be interpreted as orthonormality relations for the tetrad bases
and
if we postulate that this
determines a metric in coordinate basis. Indeed, by virtue of the identities (2.11) the equation,
(2.13)
determines an interval which is Euclidean locally and invariant with respect to the choice of the coordinate basis within a domain where
. Most likely, this is not the metric that governs propagation of signals at a larger scale. It is remarkable that Fierz identities determine a system of unit vectors even before a notion of length is introduced.
Finally, when
is defined according to (2.10) and
then all four vectors
, regardless of the tetrad
, which obviously does not have this property, also become lightlike on a two-dimensional surface,
, in spacetime
. Obviously, in this case matrix
has no inverse.
3. Vector and Dirac Fields in Spacetime. Analytic Preliminaries
From now on, we look at the
as the physical Dirac field over four-dimensional manifold
. The points
are mapped onto points
. The components
are thought of as smooth
functions of the arbitrarily parameterized points
of the spacetime. So far, we have verified
that the algebraic structure of bilinear forms of the Dirac field naturally contains an orthogonal quadruple of unit (with respect to Minkowski metric) vectors at a generic point. By the argument of algebraic completeness, this quadruple must be isomorphic to a basis of any four non-complanar tangent vectors
in
. In a coordinate space
, the latter are transformed as
, while the former are scalars. In
, for a given fixed
, we can consider
as the equation of a coordinate hypersurface and the lines along which all coordinates, but
, are constant as coordinate lines. Tangent vectors of these lines (which are gradients of the
linear function
) are
. Their covariant counterparts,
, are
the gradient vectors and the system of equations
is integrable, but there is no metric and no way to determine if its coordinate lines are orthogonal. One may replace
by smooth functions of other coordinates
,
, thus redefining coordinate lines and surfaces, but such a change does not alter
and has nothing to do with “Lorentz rotations”.
Thus, we have to account for two different kinds of invariance. One of them is the covariance, a trivial mathe- matical independence from the coordinate system. The second one is the invariance of the Dirac field as the matter, and it is dominant on every account, because any conceivable measurement requires the presence of the localized physical objects. In this section, we consider the Dirac field as a known function of coordinates and do not employ its equation of motion.
3.1. Dirac Currents as a “Moving Frame” in Spacetime
The Dirac field
is a coordinate scalar, but it naturally generates an affine centered vector space (spanned by the Dirac currents
) at P, which is similar to the tangent space
of the four-dimensional manifold
at P (spanned by the vectors
or
). These currents constitute a complete basis, they are of unit length and orthogonal in the sense of Equation (2.5). The continuous field of tetrad
is embedded into
. Therefore, an infinitesimal change of the
(and, eventually, of the
) from point P to point
is predetermined as,
(3.1)
Also predetermined is the derivative of the scalars
,
, and it has a very simple meaning. For a given displacement
in
, the total change
can be expanded over a complete system
with the coefficients
. More precise is the directional deri- vative,
(3.2)
along an arbitrary vector
in
. By taking
, we immediately recognize the connections
, with the directional derivative,
, along
, as objects in principal manifold
,
(3.3)
Then
. Since
we immediately conclude that
(3.4)
viz., the
is skew-symmetric in the first two indices.
3.2. Covariant Derivatives at a Point in M
In what follows, we compute the covariant derivatives of the vector and spinor components with respect to different bases and establish their interrelation.
1. The Dirac tetrad. Starting from Equations (2.7) and (3.3) and following the Cartan’s idea of a moving frame [15] , we can compute the covariant derivative of the components of any vector
,
(3.5)
or, in terms of components with respect to the basis
,
(3.6)
where
are the relative changes of the components and
is their total change. We explicitly see that the presence of the physical Dirac field over the principal manifold
immediately endows
with an affine connection. It also provides a natural definition of parallel transport as a transformation that leaves the components
of a vector unchanged with respect to a local basis, even when the local tetrad (or a coordinate hedgehog) changes its orientation from point to point. Equation (3.3) is a special case of Equation (3.6) when
. Taking for
the components of the vector current,
, one can define the covariant derivative of the Dirac field without leaving the principal manifold
. Indeed, assuming that
(3.7)
and comparing with Equation (3.6) one readily obtains the equation that determines the connection
[16] ,
(3.8)
where
and these matrices
, depending on
, must be considered as primary objects in
.
2. Arbitrary tetrads. Knowing the affine connection in the basis of vectors
, we can find it in any other basis
. Indeed, starting from Equation (3.6) we rewrite covariant derivative in terms of the basis vectors
,
(3.9)
where
and
stands for the expression,
. By virtue of Equations
(2.9), we have
. Using Equation (3.3), we obtain (by definition,
=
0;
is a matrix of Lorentz rotation),
(3.10)
These invariants are nothing but the coefficients of rotation of the basic vectors
with respect to the basis
. Conversely, the equation,
(3.11)
gives the coefficients of rotation
of the basic vectors
with respect to the basis
.
3. Coordinate basis. In the coordinate picture, the basis vectors
are assumed to be known in advance. In this case, one can derive the covariant derivative as
(3.12)
where
stands for
(3.13)
and (because of the term with
) it is transformed as a connection under a change of the coordinates. Alter- natively, we could start with
(or just substitute
from Equation (3.10)) and obtain another representation of the same connection
,
(3.14)
which is now expressed via quantities that explicitly depend on the physical Dirac field. Finally, using Equations (12), we can invert the last two equations to obtain,
(3.15)
which is normally taken as an ad hoc definition of the coefficients of rotation of tetrad vectors when one prefers to stay in
. Notably, Equations (3.15) and (3.3) determine the same
, although Equation (3.3) app- arently belongs to
and has nothing to do with the
. This may be considered as an evidence that the vectors
and the connections
are the auxiliary quantities.
When
is a vector and
is a tensor (not necessarily determining a metric) then the covariant derivative
with respect to
is also a tensor [17] . Using Equations (3.12) and (3.15), it is straight- forward to check that if
has the form (2.10) then
. Indeed, since
we have
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An idea of how to find this
practically, will become clear only in the next paper [8] , where a concrete solution
is found. Starting from there, one can take the following path,
and, eventually, explicitly determine the
.
4. Connections for the Dirac field. Starting from Equation (3.9) for the vector current
,
(3.16)
or translating Equation (3.8) into the basis
, it is straightforward to obtain the following equation for the matrix
5:
(3.17)
where
, and nothing implies that
must be numerical matrices6. If we introduce
and
and use (3.15), then Equations (3.8) and (3.17) can be rewritten entirely in
,
(3.18)
Equations (3.17) and (3.18) indicate that the Dirac matrices
are covariantly constant with respect to the “connection”
of the Dirac field,
. The same is true for other representations as well.
Either of Equations (3.8), (3.17) and (3.18) can be solved (algebraically) for the corresponding
. The most general solution reads as
(3.19)
where, so far, e and g are arbitrary constants. The term
in the connection (19) (or the field
) is unquestionably interpreted as the electromagnetic potential. The term
(or field
) could have been interpreted as another field that interacts with the axial current
7. The connection (3.19) commutes with the matrix
, so that Equation (3.17) remains the same when
. So far, it neither commutes nor anti- commutes with
and
, viz.
(3.20)
Similar formulae arise for the charge-conjugated connection. Since
and
,
(3.21)
The commutation relations for the Dirac matrices
and
are
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in
and
, respectively. We assume that the matrices
are associated with the basis
in the tan- gent
, while matrices
belong to the principal manifold
. In what follows, we consider Dirac field as the primary matter field; covariant derivatives of its bilinear functions will be computed only using Equations (3.17)-(3.19).
5. Connections in different bases. Equations (3.10) and (3.11) are nothing but the well known formulae for transformation of a linear connection between two non-coordinate (anholonomic) bases. In these bases, all quantities are functions of the point P in the principal manifold
, and thus independent of the coordinate basis in the
. For example, we readily have the coordinate-independent equation of the parallel transport of a vector
along a vector
, viz. ![]()
If we omit indices and use the notation
for matrix
(as well as
for
,
for
and
for
) then Equations (3.10) and (3.11) read as
(3.22)
which are the universal expressions8 for all kinds of connections associated with local transformations. Equ- ations (3.6) and (3.9), augmented by definition of the derivatives,
and
, are fix- ing the components of any vector with respect to the (moving) tetrads
and
. The existence of the field of unitary matrix of the Lorentz transform
(and then of an affine connection
) appears to be an amazing consequence of the Fierz identities for bilinear forms of the Dirac field. Finally, it is straightforward to check that, once
and
are the components of vectors and
and
are scalars, the connection
transforms under a further change of the coordinates as
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which guarantees that the derivative
transforms as a tensor. Transformations (3.10) and (3.11) are re- duced to this formula when the tetrads are formed by the gradient vectors.
By definition,
, were index
can belong to any of the bases. Therefore, Equation (3.19) has the required general form (3.22) and can be rewritten as
in tetrad basis and as
in the coordinate
.
6. Symmetry of the connection
. If we naively assume that the Minkowski signature
in Equations (2.4) and (2.5) determines the local metric of an inertial reference frame at point P (with local coordinates
) and that
of Equations (2.10) is obtained by a local coordinate transformation of the
then, being a tensor, the skew-symmetric part
of the connection (the tensor of torsion) should be zero. This argument would require, in its turn, that the covariant tetrad vectors be the gradient vectors,
, which is by no means self-evident.
There is, however, another reason for the symmetry of
, which is hinted by the Cartan’s method of moving frame. The field of tetrad
belongs to
and can be used as a “ moving frame” for all vectors
, including the vectors
of infinitesimal displacements. Consider now a closed path
through the point
and attach the “ natural” tetrad
to its points. Then every next point of the path has a position with respect to the tetrad of the previous point. Since the tetrad
is changing from point to point, we have no other choice but to specify the transport of a vector as the parallel Fermi transport (in the sense that the components of a vector with respect to the local tetrad do not change) along the chosen path. We will be able to get back to
(the image of the path in the moving frame will be closed) with the same
and, therefore, with the same tetrad
and matrix
, which is imperative, if and only if the components
of the connection, as they are defined in the coordinate basis
of the
, are sym- metric in their subscripts. Then the torsion tensor vanishes, and only then will we be able to contract the entire path to the point
. Consequently, the following formulae,
(3.23)
can be confidently used for any coordinate scalar
.
4. Differential Identities for the Dirac Currents
As it was pointed out above, Equations (3.6) and (3.9) with the predetermined coefficients of rotation fix the components of a vector with respect to an a priori arbitrary tetrad basis. One might expect that these equations can be trivially used to fix the components of any tensor field. However, the coefficients of rotation of the “geo- metric tetrad”
and those of the tetrad
of the normalized Dirac currents are interconnected by Equation (3.10). Hence, the dynamic can potentially limit a feasible choice of the basis
. The coordinate system (coordinate lines) can be not arbitrary; not all coordinate variables can even have the meaning of coordinates. Therefore, it seems appropriate to postpone, for as long as possible, explicit use of any coordinate basis and treat
the tetrad
as an orthogonal moving frame [15] . An affine geometry will be constructive if and only
if all the coefficients
of rotation of the tetrad
can be determined from the equations of motion.
In this section we show that this is indeed possible. There appears to be sufficient number of identities for the Dirac currents to completely determine the coefficients
and the connections
in the covariant deri- vative
. Therefore, from now on we are dealing with the physical material Dirac field that satisfies the Dirac equations of motion,
(4.1)
with the derivative
, connection
defined by Equation (3.19), and the mass parameter m. The latter is, for now, real, arbitrary and stands for the rate of mixing between the right and left components of the Dirac spinor. The equations of motion for the charge-conjugated spinor are
(4.2)
where
is the covariant derivatives of the charge-conjugate Dirac field, and
is given by Equations (3.21).
4.1. Divergences of the Dirac Currents
From the equations of motion (4.1) one immediately derives two well-known identities. Multiplying the Dirac equation by
from the left and its conjugate by
from the right and taking their sum we readily obtain that
(4.3)
This equation clearly indicates conservation of the timelike vector current (of probability) of the Dirac field. The second identity is obtained from the Dirac Equation (4.1), which is multiplied by
from the left (and its conjugate from the right, and noting that
). It indicates that the spacelike axial current is not conserved,
(4.4)
and has the pseudoscalar density as a source. Since
is localized not less than
, and the vector
is spacelike, it defines the radial direction. The existence of such a direction is a distinct characteristic of any loca- lized object.
Similar identities can be derived for the vectors
and
of Section 2. Using Equations (3.21) and (4.2), we immediately arrive to covariant derivatives of the matrix elements
as
(4.5)
Though these vectors are complex and explicitly depend on the phase of
, this dependence is compensated in the covariant derivative (4.5) by the gauge transformation of the vector potential. The derivatives of
and
become
(4.6)
The fields of complex currents
look like being “charged” with a charge 2e. From the equations of motion (4.2) and using Equation (4.6), it is straightforward to get
and, consequently,
(4.7)
Similarly to the vector of axial current, these vectors are not conserved due to electromagnetic potential
.
4.2. Curls of the Dirac Currents
In order to access the differential identities for the curls of the Dirac currents one has to compute, using the equations of motion, the derivatives of the objects
, which are traces of tensors (objects),
,
,
and
, respectively. These ten- sors are neither real nor symmetric, and we are not concerned here about their physical interpretation.
1.
―a tensor or not? One would expect the absolute differential of
, being computed according to the Leibniz rule, be as follows,
(4.8)
and this expression would fix, similarly to Equations (3.9) and (3.12), the components of the tensor
with respect to the tetrad
. If this expectation turns out justified then the usual covariant derivative will be immediately reproduced as
(4.9)
Contrary to the expectation of (4.8), the answer reads
(4.10)
with the last term of Equation (4.8) missing, and no hope to recover the full geometric expression (4.9) of the covariant derivative of the tensor! Contracting here indices a and c and using equations of motion we would arrive at [7]
(4.11)
with the normal covariant derivative in the l.h.s. The
and an abnormal term
in the r.h.s. originate
from the commutator of the covariant derivatives,
. Its real part is the Lorentz force,
[7] [16] 9.
2. Abnormal terms and how they restore the GL(4) covariance. The abnormal term enters another identity that follows from the Dirac equation, which arises after contracting indices a and b in Equation (4.10). On the one hand, we formally have (Cf. footnote7. The
must be a scalar and the last term in the r.h.s. must be absent.)
(4.12)
On the other hand, by virtue of the Dirac equation, the first term on the r.h.s. of (4.12) becomes
. Alternatively, one can immediately use the equations of motion on the l.h.s. and only then
differentiate,
(4.13)
Comparing the last two equations and using (3.20), we finally find that the abnormal term
vanishes (or at least can be expressed via abnormal field
)
(4.14)
thus restoring the covariance of Equation (4.11). Remarkably, the usual covariance in coordinate space is re- stored due to equations of motion. Equation (4.14) yields two nontrivial conditions on the structure of the Dirac currents as follows. The Ricci coefficients are real-valued and skew-symmetric in the first two indices. The r.h.s. of Equation (4.14) is real. Therefore, the imaginary part of Equation (4.14) reads as
(4.15)
In order to facilitate further analysis of the real part of Equation (4.14), let us rewrite its l.h.s. in terms of the axial current. Using the dual representation of the axial current as
,
and employing the equations of motion we obtain,
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where the r.h.s is four times the anti-symmetric Hermitian part of the energy momentum tensor. Therefore, the real part of Equation (4.14) reads as
(4.16)
3. More non-tensors and abnormal terms. Next, consider the stress tensor
, mostly following the same protocol and starting from its covariant derivative. We find that
(4.17)
Once again, the last term of Equation (4.8) is missing, and thus we have no confidence that the covariant derivative is a tensor. For the immediate purpose of this work, we only need the equations that emerge after contracting indices a and b in Equation (4.17),
(4.18)
By virtue of the Dirac equations, the first term in the r.h.s. becomes
. Alternatively, one can immediately use the equations of motion in the l.h.s. and only then differentiate (matrices
and
com- mute),
(4.19)
Comparing the last two equations we finally get the equation,
(4.20)
which is complementary to Equation (4.14). Since
is skew-symmetric in the first two indices, the imaginary part in the l.h.s. is due to
. Since the axial current is a vector, we can rewrite the imaginary part of the last equation as [C.f. footnote7],
(4.21)
which is dual to Equation (4.16). The skew-symmetric Hermitian part,
, must vanish
since the r.h.s. of Equation (4.20) is an imaginary quantity. Since
,
, this yields the equation,
(4.22)
which is similar to Equation (4.16) and dual to Equation (4.15).
4. A full set of prerequisites for the covariance. Considered together, Equations (4.15) and (4.22) constitute a linear system of eight equations for the six unknowns,
. In general, the rank of its matrix equals 6. Therefore, it can only have a trivial solution. Since
are the invariants of a true tensor,
, we have the tensor equation,
(4.23)
Equations (4.16) and (4.21) constitute the system of 8 equations for 10 unknown quantities,
and
. These equations also explicitly depend on a choice of the auxiliary field of tetrad
, which is unacceptable. Insisting on independence as a physical (and then mathematical) requirement and realizing that
does not exist as a physical field, we must put
10. Then we have the system of 8 homogeneous equations for only 6 unknowns
with a trivial solution,
(4.24)
which is similar to Equations (4.23) that we had for the vector current.
More identities are readily obtained along the same guidelines as Equation (4.14). Namely, duplicating (4.12)-
(4.14), we compute
and
directly and using equations of motion. Adding up the results we obtain that
(4.25)
Computing in the same way the dual quantities,
and
, we end up with
(4.26)
which once again is a system of 8 equations for six unknowns with only a trivial solution. Since
is skew- symmetric in the first two indices and is not zero, we arrive at
(4.27)
which, by virtue of (4.6), results in
(4.28)
The differential identities (4.15), (4.23) and (4.28) for the Dirac currents are written down in the covariant tensor form and can be transformed further into tetrad representation with respect to any tetrad. Therefore, it is indeed possible to overcome the Cartan’s veto [C.f. footnote 4] relying on the second reservation in Cartan’s statement.
5. Dirac Field and Congruences of Curves
Each of four linear partial differential equations,
, determine a congruence of lines because it is equivalent to the system of three ODEs for unknown
,
. The question is whether two or three of these PDEs can be solved together (if they form a complete system). The answer is encoded in the properties of the rotation coefficients
of the orthogonal net of the tetrad
. These are not given a priori, but it is possible to find them as dynamic quantities. This is an immediate goal of this section. Technically, we will rely only on Equation (3.15),
(5.1)
5.1. Vector Current and Timelike Congruence
To analyze the lines of the vector current, the two obtained earlier equations, (4.3) and (4.23),
(5.2)
must be examined together. When the invariant density of the Dirac (spinor) matter is positive,
, the vector field
is strictly timelike; its tangent unit vector is
,
. Therefore, Equation (4.23) becomes
(5.3)
Contracting this equation with
,
and using Equation (5.1) we find that
(5.4)
which is a necessary and sufficient condition for the congruence
to be normal [17] [18] . Namely, there exists such a function,
, that the vector field
is orthogonal to the family of surfaces
,
(5.5)
where
satisfies the complete system of three equations,
,
, and
is a coordinate scalar. Contracting Equation (5.3) with
we get
(5.6)
where
is the derivative in the direction of the arc
. Contraction of Equ- ation (5.3) with
yields
(5.7)
which indicates that congruences of lines, defined by the system of equations,
, must experience
permanent bending (acceleration) whenever the invariant density
of the Dirac field is not uniformly distributed. The spatial gradient of
cannot vanish for any localized state.
Additional information can be extracted from Equation (4.3),
. Then, by definition,
(5.8)
Hence, we can rewrite (5.6) as
(5.9)
which shows that the r.h.s. of Equation (5.9), which contains only geometric objects, is a component of a gradient. Together with condition (5.4) this constitutes a necessary and sufficient condition that the function
defined by Equation (5.5) is an harmonic function [17] ,
(5.10)
The parameter
of
is the definition of the world time. For the harmonic function,
, the conditions of integrability for system (5.5) of partial differential equations reads as [17]
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Comparing it with (5.9) we find that
, so that the world time
and the “proper time”
are related by
(5.11)
Furthermore, since
and system possesses the proper time, we can rewrite Equation (5.9) as
which could have been inferred directly from Equation (4.15). Then, the harmonic nature of
immediately follows from the current conservation,
. Since
is the total differential and the vector current
belongs, in fact, to the principal manifold
, so does the interval of the world time
,
(5.12)
and this interval does not depend on the path of integration (the time variable
is a holonomic coordinate).
Now, we can draw the major conclusion: The proper time,
, flows more slowly than the world time,
, whenever Dirac matter has a magnified density. Because of the wave nature of the Dirac field, its localization is inevitable. Since the congruence
appeared to be normal, the hypersurfaces
represent space at different times
. The states can be considered stationary only with respect to
; one can hope to find them only after replacing
by
in the operator of energy!
5.2. Axial Current and Radial Congruence
Here, we have to deal with the system of equations,
(5.13)
which is similar to Equations (5.2) that we had for the vector current. The only difference is that the axial current has a source
. Since there is no flux of vector current in this direction (the amount of matter inside
a closed surface remains the same), we associate the radial direction
with the axial current,
.
Next, observe that by virtue of the Fierz identity (2.3),
, we can parameterize,![]()
. Then the second Equation (5.13) takes form
(5.14)
On the one hand, by definition,
. On the other hand, according to Equ-
ation (5.7), we have
. Substituting these expressions into Equation (5.14) we ob- tain an important relation,
(5.15)
The first of Equations (5.13), being contracted with
, yields
(5.16)
so that the congruence of lines
is normal and there exists such a family of hypersurfaces
that
(5.17)
where
satisfies the complete system of three equations,
,
, and
is a coordinate scalar. In the same way as before [cf. (5.6), (5.7)], contracting the first of Equations (5.13) with
and
, we will get
(5.18)
and this is compatible with the condition for integrability,
, of the system (5.17)
only when
. Next, we may compute the second derivative of
. Using Equation (5.7) and Equation (5.27) below, we arrive at
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From here we find that if
, then
is the solution of an inhomogeneous wave equation,
(5.19)
for the “ potential”
with the source density proportional to the mass parameter m of the Dirac equation and pseudoscalar density
(in static limit, it becomes the Poisson equation). Not surprisingly, this source is equal to the derivative of the invariant density in the direction of the axial current. If the invariant density was not changing in a “radial direction”, the whole idea of a localized object would be vague. Similarly to (5.5) and (5.11), we have
(5.20)
From here, we conclude that the differential form
is integrable and the “radial distance”,
(5.21)
does not depend on the integration path (the coordinate variable
is holonomic).
5.3. Congruences of the Angular Arcs
Here, we must deal with four equations (4.6) and (4.28). Taking
(an alter-
native choice with
will be discussed later), starting from Equation (4.6), and duplicating the deri-
vation of Equation (5.8) we arrive at the equations,
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Since by the second Equation (5.18) we have
and
, these equations com- pletely define
and
,
(5.22)
Putting further in Equations (4.28)
and
, and duplicating the scheme of Equation (5.3)-(5.7), we obtain,
(5.23)
(5.24)
(5.25)
(5.26)
Giving index A in Equations (5.24) and (5.26) all possible values, we get the following constraints,
(5.27)
(5.28)
Equations (5.28) and (5.22) are mutually compatible only when
and
(5.29)
i.e., when the vectors of the geodesic curvature
and
of the congruences [0] and [3] of the vector and axial currents have no projections on the lines of the congruences [1] and [2] of the charged currents. Together with the previously obtained Equations (5.8), (5.18) and (5.22), they give all
in terms of deri- vatives of the invariant density and electromagnetic potentials. Namely, since
, we also have
, which together with the first Equation (5.27) entails that
(5.30)
The second of these equations means that the congruence [3] is geodesic11. Quite remarkably, this conclusion about static character of the configuration that satisfies Dirac equations of motion is reached only after all the differential identities are considered together. The additional constraints that follow from Equations (5.23) and (5.25), when indices A and B are given all possible values, are as follows,
(5.31)
(5.32)
Combined with the previous results (Equation (5.4), particularly) they yield,
(5.33)
(5.34)
The last of these equations is the necessary and sufficient condition for the congruences of lines
,
and
being canonical of the congruence
[18] . This property appears to be yet another consequence of the Dirac equation of motion, which thus guarantees that the orthogonal tetrad is Fermi-transported. Finally, comparing Equations (5.16) and (5.34) we find that
(5.35)
5.4. Summary―Coefficients of Rotations That Completely Define the Matter-Induced Affine Geometry
By now, we have succeeded to find simple expressions for all coefficients
of rotation of the basis
of the normalized Dirac currents. This is the last step in the design of the matter-induced affine geometry. From this point, one can rely on the common tools of the differential geometry. We can divide the not vanishing components of
into two distinct groups:
1) Five geodesic curvatures ( the
with only two distinct indices),
(5.36)
2) Only two of the
with all three different indices are nonzero. These are
(5.37)
3) The coefficients
, which depend on the potential
, are of the same form
(5.38)
so that presence of electromagnetic field causes rotation of the Dirac tetrad in the (12)―tangent plane. This inter-action makes it impossible, in general, to match Dirac equation with the all-orthogonal system of hyper- surfaces12.
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Using Equations (5.36)-(5.37) and employing Equation (2.5) as,
, we obtain,
(5.39)
It is essential that the only directional derivative that survived all constrains is
, and even it can be expressed via pseudoscalar density. Therefore, the practical computation of the connection
does not re- quire any reference to a coordinate background. The congruence of integral lines of the vector field
is both normal and geodesic. This is the only geodesic of the principal manifold
, and it is inherited by the hyper- surfaces of the constant world time. The congruences
constitute a canonical system with respect to the congruence
. Therefore the entire tetrad is Fermi-transported along the the lines of the radial congruence
. Equations (5.36)-(5.39) assume a localized configuration with maximum of invariant density in its interior and a naturally right-handed spatial trihedron
. If there is a minimum, then the signs of tetrad components
in coefficients of rotation (5.36)-(5.37) (and only there!) must be reverted.
6. Coordinate Surfaces and Coordinate Lines of the Dirac Field
Below, we attempt to find the submanifolds of the physical manifold
, which can be mapped onto coordinate surfaces of the arithmetic
. An advance knowledge of these surfaces will be critical for finding the auto- localized Dirac waveforms and then understanding their shape and internal field structure. If we denote the differential operators
as
and introduce, for the sake of brevity,
, then an explicit calculation according to the second Equation (3.23),
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yields the following expressions for the Poisson brackets,
(6.1)
These expressions allow one to completely explore properties not only of the individual congruences and 3-d hypersurfaces but also of the 2-d surfaces. The latter is imperative as long as we aim at (and already have a hint of) dynamic localization of the Dirac field into finite-sized objects.
Some immediate observations are in order. Equations (6.1) are nothing but differential identities that express the integrability of the directional derivatives. From equations of motion we know that
for ![]()
and
. Let us take in Equation (6.1)
and use Equations (5.29) and (5.30). Then from Equ-
ations (6.1.e,f) we have
and
, while Equation (6.1.a) yields
. Thus, we have even more constraints,
(6.2)
At any point P of the principal manifold
all the scalars change only in the direction
of the axial current, and the rate of this change is determined by the product
.
6.1. Integrable Subsystems and Coordinate Surfaces in R4
Since we are aiming at the discovery of the localized solutions, a coordinate picture may become most app- ropriate, and it is useful to know in advance what the admissible coordinate net may look like. Solely for this purpose, we study here whether the congruences of the Dirac currents in
can form at least some of the four 3-d coordinate hypersurfaces and of the six 2-d coordinate surfaces. Once found, these surfaces will be studied in detail as submanifolds embedded into
endowed with the connections identified above.
1. Hypersurfaces S(123) and S(120). From visual inspection of the Poisson brackets (6.1), among the four equ- ations,
, there are two integrable systems of three equations that define two hypersurfaces and two integrable system of two equations that define two surfaces in the coordinate space
. Namely, three com-
mutators between the
,
and
[Equations (6.1 d,e,f)] are the linear combinations of these operators
alone. Therefore, the function
(as well as any function
) is the first integral of the complete (Jacobian) system of three equations,
(6.3)
The parameter
enumerates the family of hypersurfaces
, which are spanned by the streamlines of the vector fields
,
and
and have
as the normal. Equations (6.1 b,c,d) indicate that three equ- ations,
(6.4)
also constitute an integrable system with a first integral
(or any function
); the latter represents hypersurfaces
of the constant “radius” ρ when
. These are spanned by the integral lines
of the vector fields
,
and
and have
as the spacelike normal.
2. Surfaces S(12) and S(03). Next, by Equation (6.1 d) the system of equations
(6.5)
is integrable. Its two first integrals,
and
, determine a two-dimensional surface ![]()
spanned by the streamlines of the vector fields
and
having the normal vectors
.
The first integrals of the system (6.5) are known because both of its equations are satisfied by
and
. Once
and
are algebraically independent, these are the two first integrals of the system (5), and the 2-d surface
is uniquely fixed by the values of constants
and
, which enumerate the surfaces of a constant “radius”
at a given “world time”
.
Finally, according to Equation (6.1 a) the commutator between
and
is proportional to
. There- fore, the system of equations
(6.6)
is integrable. It has two first integrals,
and
, which determine a two-dimensional surface
spanned by the streamlines of the vector fields
and
. The two normal vectors
of these surfaces are the linear combinations
. One of the first integrals of the second Equation (6.6) is
, i.e. we have
. Also, one of the first integrals of the first Equation (6.6) is
, i.e.
. Since the congruences of integral lines of the fields
and
are
normal―(cf. Section 5), we have
and
, as well as ![]()
and
. In terms of the new independent variables,
, the system (6.6) immediately acquires the normal (Jacobian) form,
(6.7)
Its second equation is equivalent to the system of three ODEs,
(6.8)
which has three first integrals,
,
,
. In terms of the new independent variables,
, the system (6.7) reads as
(6.9)
where
. Since
is independent of
, we have one PDE in three variables, which is equivalent to the system of two ODEs. The variables
and
form an orthogonal coordinate basis on every 2-d surface
(enumerated by the values of
and
).
6.2. Coordinate Surfaces as Submanifolds in M
Conditions for simultaneous integrability of the PDEs for the streamlines of the Dirac currents prompted the existence of the (hyper)surfaces in
and, most importantly, in
. Here, in order to understand their shape, we look at them as submanifolds of the principal manifold
.
1. The method. For the sake of brevity, we will use the Latin capitals
to label the entire tetrad basis
(or
). In the context of the current work this is the basis of the ambient space. The capitals
will label the tangent tetrad vectors of a 3-d or 2-d submanifold. The capitals
will be used to label the normal vectors. Then the induced metric of a submanifold is
and, by virtue of definition (2.11), the first quadratic form of the surface
is (pseudo)-Euclidean,![]()
.
Since we are interested in submanifolds that are spanned by the integral lines of the tetrad vectors, the Gauss and Weingarten decompositions of the covariant derivatives of tangent and normal (with respect to a sub- manifold) tetrad vectors immediately follow from Equations (3.2),
(6.10)
(6.11)
where all the
's listed in Equations (5.36)-(5.37) are known explicitly13. The first term,
, in the r.h.s. of the Gauss decomposition (6.10) is the connection of the intrinsic tangent space of the submanifold. The second term,
(with two tangent and one normal indices), is the second fundamental form of the submani- fold with respect to the normal
. The first term in Weingarten decomposition (6.11), ![]()
, (the shape form with two tangent and one normal indices) is similar to the second fundamental form in (6.10); both account for the rotation of the tetrad in the (PA) plane when it is displaced in a tangent direction
. The second term of Equation (6.11),
, with two normal and one tangent indices, is the covariant derivative of the normal components of a vector in a tangent direction of the submanifold. It accounts for the rotation of the (AB)―plane of the two normals under infinitesimal displacement in tangent direction
.
Now, since there is no question of how a submanifold is embedded into the ambient space with explicitly known tetrad vectors, we are in position to study the internal geometry of various coordinate surfaces, as submanifolds of the principal manifold
. Besides the second fundamental form, we will use the Riemann curvature tensor in ambient space and in subspaces,
(6.12)
With these preliminaries, we are in the position to consider all subspaces on-by-one.
2. The hypersurface S(123) represents space at a given time. It has three spacelike tangent vectors
,
, and a single timelike normal vector
. The coefficients of the single second fundamental form are
and
. The second fundamental form,
,
is proportional to first fundamental form,
of the
,
(6.13)
Therefore, the
is a totally umbilical submanifold14 with zero mean normal curvature
. The latter means that
is a totally geodesic submanifold; it inherits its sole geodesic
from the ambient
. From the perspective of the ambient space, the hypersurface
has no curvature, it is extrinsically flat. The extrinsic part vanishes together with the connections
. The intrinsic Riemann curvature of the
has six different (modulo sign) components; it is given by the terms of (6.12) with all indices in tangent space of the
,
(6.14)
where
coincide, by appearance, with the tetrad components of the electromagnetic field tensor rewritten in the basis
. It should be remembered that all the
here came from the components of the Ricci coefficients of rotation (5.38).
3. The hypersurface S(120) represents the surface of a given “radius” at all times. It has two spacelike and one timelike tangent vectors
,
, and a single spacelike normal vector
. The coefficients of the second fundamental form are
and
. The second fun-
damental form,
, is proportional to the first fundamental form ![]()
of the
,
(6.15)
Therefore, the hypersurface
is also a totally umbilical submanifold with the mean curvature
. By virtue of Equations (6.2), the vector of (mean) geodesic curvature H is constant and parallel throughout every hypersurface
.
The intrinsic part of the Riemann curvature of the hypersurface
has only the following components,
(6.16)
identical with those of
. The extrinsic parts are due to
, i.e., the connections that contain normal component
,
(6.17)
Since congruences
,
and
are canonical with respect to the normal congruence
, their lines are the lines of curvature of the hypersurface
. If at some point of
we have
, then the directions of
,
and
become the asymptotic directions.
4. Surface S(12) is the surface of a given “radius” at a given time and can be viewed as a hypersurface of either
or
with the normals
or
, respectively. It has two spacelike tangent vectors
,
, and two normal vectors
,
, timelike
and spacelike
. Accordingly, there are two second fundamental forms,
and
, with the following coefficients
,
,
. The first fundamental form of
is ![]()
, and the two second fundamental forms are
(6.18)
Therefore, the 2-d surface
is a totally umbilical submanifold with the mean curvature
, which is determined by the Dirac field within principal manifold
. The Gaussian curvature
is positive. Such a surface can only be the sphere with the radius of curvature
[19] [20] . (It is a plane, when
, but then
must be uniform and
. Here, the spherical shape is a dynamic symmetry since it originates from equations of motion.). Nearly the most important property of sub- manifolds
follows from the compatibility conditions (5.29) and Equation (6.2), which indicate that the invariant densities
are constant along every 2-d surface
,
. The mean curvature H is constant along
as well. The normal connection for this submanifold can be only due to the components
and
of the connection
, but these vanish identically,
, so that both normal vector fields (and the mean curvature vector) are parallel with respect to the tangent displacements along
,
. The Riemann curvature of
has only one component,
and it can be de- composed in two parts. The intrinsic one,
, is given by the terms of (6.12) with all indices in tangent space of
. The only nonzero connections here are
and
, so that sectional curvature of the
,
(6.19)
is entirely due to the tangent tetrad components of the electromagnetic field
. The extrinsic part,
, is due to the connections
from the second fundamental form and
(6.20)
5. The surface S(03) represents a given “angular direction” at all “radial” distances and at all times. It has one spacelike and one timelike tangent vectors
,
, and two spacelike normal vectors
,
. Here, we also have two second fundamental forms,
and
, with the following coefficients
,
,
. The first fundamental form of the
is
and both second fundamental forms are just zero, ![]()
The submanifold
is totally umbilical with the mean curvature
, and as such is a totally geodesic submanifold. The shape form of
is zero. The normal connection for the coordinate surface
(and only for this surface) does not vanish,
(6.21)
solely due to the external potential
,
,
. A displacement in the directions of
and
, rotates the tetrad in plane (12). The Riemannian sectional curvature of the
is induced by an ambient space,
(6.22)
6.3. Coordinate Lines
According to Equation (6.2), system (6.5) of PDEs admits, along with the first integrals
and
of hypersurfaces
and
, respectively, the first integrals
, ![]()
and
, which must be functions of the former ones, and vice versa,
(6.23)
being, ultimately, the known functions of the Dirac field
. Potentially, one can obtain the functions
and
purely algebraically,without even solving system (6.5) of PDEs. Every 2-d surface
is fixed not only by the constants
and
, but also, e.g., by
and
, which indicates that surface
belongs to the principal manifold
without any reference to a coordinate
. These observations are compli- mentary to the main idea of this work that Dirac field naturally determines the moving frame. Here, the two scalars, e.g.,
and
, can replace the coordinates
and
(similarly to the hodograph transformation in hydrodynamics). From Equation (6.2) with tetrad index
one can see that neither of the scalars
depends on the time variable
(or
). Therefore, these quantities depend only on the radial variable
(or, equivalently, on the affine parameter
).
1. Radial lines. When a geodesic line is given in the parametric form,
, the unit tangent vector is
. The affine parameter of the radial geodesic lines is
, but it differs from the parameter
of the hypersurfaces
, which determines distance (5.21) at some moment of the world time
(5.12). In terms of the variable
, the ODE for geodesic line with the tangent vector
is
(6.24)
where the connection
is defined by Equation (3.14). The ODE for a geodesic line
in terms of the physical variable
that can be obtained by means of a simple transformation,
, and reads as
(6.25)
where the r.h.s. does not contain derivatives of the Dirac field and it clearly manifests that the (not unit) tangent vector
and its change are parallel along the “radial” geodesic curve.
2. The lines of the world time. The acceleration of the unit tangent vector of the lines of the vector current
is
(6.26)
and it has only the radial component (precisely the same as radial geodesic (6.25)), which equals in magnitude but has opposite sign with respect to the mean curvature vector of surface
and hypersurface
. The ODE for the trajectory
reads as
(6.27)
Obviously, the line of the vector current that passes through a point with the radial coordinate
never leaves the the surface
. Therefore, there is no flux of the charge density
in the outside direction, which is an indirect but indisputable evidence of localization.
3. The coordinate net over S(12). Finally, the lines of the Dirac currents
and
are also bound to the surface
. Indeed, for the curves
and
we have
(6.28)
so that they have the same normal component of the mean curvature vector, and they are bent within surface
even when the components
.
To summarize, all the currents passing in a tangent direction through a point on hypersurface
of a given radius
never leave this surface.
7. Conclusions
The (hyper)surfaces emerging from the Dirac equation and differential identities for the Dirac currents point to a fairly simple geometric structure of the lines and surfaces of the admissible coordinate net. These surfaces are built into the Dirac matter and completely determined by the latter. We will extensively refer to their properties in the second part [8] of this work. They will be used to write down the exact nonlinear Dirac equations and to find their analytic solutions, which represent a finite-sized stable particle. These solutions will necessarily be localized and have a spherical symmetry. This symmetry is not contemplated as a property of the ambient space. Within the framework of the matter-induced affine geometry, the spherical symmetry is the property of a solution, and thus is a dynamic symmetry.
A general discussion of the method, its results and perspectives is postponed till the last section of the Ref. [8] .
NOTES
1Employing the Dirac matrices, we can define the four components of the “ vector current”,
, the four components of the “axial current”,
, two “charged currents”,
and
, the “scalar”
and “ pseudoscalar”
. Well-known are the six components of the skew-symmetric “tensor”
(or its dual,
). All of them are interconnected by the so-called Fierz relations [10] . The charge-conjugated spinor is defined as
with a real-valued matrix
(e.g.,
).
2This is a small subset of the Fierz identities that includes 28 basic relations and hundreds of derivable from them. They were studied in details in Ref. [10] as the basis for the mathematical reconstruction theorem [11] that states that Dirac spinor field can be uniquely restored via the Dirac currents (without any account for the dynamics). Within this approach it is possible to replace tetrad vectors of any coordinate system by an equivalent Dirac field thus simplifying various calculations [12] . Among the objects connected via the Fierz identities is present the skew-symmetric
. The
appears to be a combination of the skew-symmetric products
and
and scalars. The author was not aware of this fact and wrongfully tried [7] to employ
to build a substitute for the
and
.
3Indeed, the necessary and sufficient condition for the linear independence is that the system of linear equations,
, has only a trivial solution,
; the latter is possible if and only if matrix that has these quadruples as its columns has a nonzero determinant,
. The determinant of the
matrix
equals
, where
is the squared module of the complex number,
. When
the four vectors
are linearly independent and can serve as a basis of vector space over
. The condition
is equivalent to two real equations,
, which determine a singular two-dimensional surface in
(and thus on
).
4Long ago, E. Cartan [13] pointed to a difficulty, i.e. there are no representations of the general linear group of transformations
that are similar to spinor representations of the Lorentz group of rotations. From the physical standpoint this argument is marginal since Lorentz transformations are between the reference frames of inertial observers and not between different differentiable mappings
. Cartan stated the following theorem, which vetoed spinors in Riemannian geometry:
“With the geometric sense given to the word ‘spinor’ it is impossible to introduce spinors into classical Riemannian technique; i.e., having chosen an arbitrary system of co-ordinates
for space, it is impossible to represent spinor by any finite number of components
such that
have covariant derivatives of the form
, where
are determinate functions of
.” Of these two underscored reservations of Cartan, the first one was investigated by Ne'eman et al. [14] , who proposed to overcome the veto by resorting to the infinite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group. The present study explores the window, which is left open by the second reservation.
5Indeed, multiplying both sides by
we will have in the r.h.s.![]()
.
6This is straightforward to show,
,
where
.
7In the early days of the Dirac theory, it was firmly established that
and
are Lorentz scalars, which, however, does not guarantee that they are scalars with respect to the general coordinate transformations of the group
. V. Fock [16] resorted to a specific choice of the Dirac matrices to demonstrate that
and
under special Lorentz transformations S. For now, we shall refer to the differential identity (4.4),
; since
is a vector and
is a coordinate scalar, so are
and then
(due to the Fierz identity (2.3)). This argument is not geometric in its nature, because it relies on the equation of motion. Intriguing is that
and
are the coordinate scalars only due to equations of motion. At the moment, we have no convincing argument that would allow one to reject the presence of
in the
except that we have no experimental evidence that
exists as a physical field. Here, such an argument is reached later (with the reference to the equations of motion) from the physical (and then mathematical) requirement that nothing in physical manifold
or in coordinate space
can depend on a tetrad basis
. For the sake of clarity, some equations will be ending with “
”, until we reach Equations (4.16) and (4.21) and then prove that
.
8In general, k is not a tetrad index.
9Three remarks are to be made here: 1) the Lorentz force in the r.h.s. allows one to associate the observable j and
with a variations of the charge density even without reference to the Maxwell equations. A uniform distribution is not distinct from vacuum; 2) if the basis
were holonomic, viz.
, then there would have been no way to achieve the desired covariance. In fact, the abnormal term will vanish, but only if the nontrivial conditions (14) are met; 3) in general,
, where
and
are the Riemannian curvature and the electromagnetic field tensors, respectively.
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10This accomplishes the proof of the statement outlined in the footnote7.
11Having no metric, we assume here geodesic of an affine space, i.e. such a line
that its tangent vector,
, is parallel transported (with respect to an affine connection
(3.14)) along the line,
. In our particular case of the tetrad vector
, this amounts to ![]()
12Keeping up with the promise given in Section 3, we compute, following Equation (3.10), the coefficients of rotation
of the basis
.
13In mathematical literature the Gauss and Weingarten formulae are written down as
and
, respectively. Here,
are tangent and
is normal to the submanifold.
14All points of which are umbilical. A point is called umbilical if all principal curvatures at this point are equal.