Invariance of the Massless Field Equations under Changes of the Metric

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. Torres del Castillo ◽  
J. A. Mondragón-Sánchez
Author(s):  
Sergio Hojman ◽  
Felipe Asenjo

Abstract A unification in terms of exact solutions for massless Klein–Gordon, Dirac, Maxwell, Rarita– Schwinger, Einstein, and bosonic and fermionic fields of any spin is presented. The method is based on writing all of the relevant dynamical fields in terms of products and derivatives of pre–potential functions, which satisfy d’Alambert equation. The coupled equations satisfied by the pre–potentials are non-linear. Remarkably, there are particular solutions of (gradient) orthogonal pre–potentials that satisfy the usual wave equation which may be used to construct exact non–trivial solutions to Klein–Gordon, Dirac, Maxwell, Rarita–Schwinger, (linearized and full) Einstein and any spin bosonic and fermionic field equations, thus giving rise to an unification of the solutions of all massless field equations for any spin. Some solutions written in terms of orthogonal pre–potentials are presented. Relations of this method to previously developed ones, as well as to other subjects in physics are pointed out.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 1550084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Süleyman Demir ◽  
Murat Tanişli ◽  
Mustafa Emre Kansu

In this paper, it is proven that the associative octons including scalar, pseudoscalar, pseudovector and vector values are convenient and capable tools to generalize the Maxwell–Dirac like field equations of electromagnetism and linear gravity in a compact and simple way. Although an attempt to describe the massless field equations of electromagnetism and linear gravity needs the sixteen real component mathematical structures, it is proved that these equations can be formulated in terms of eight components of octons. Furthermore, the generalized wave equation in terms of potentials is derived in the presence of electromagnetic and gravitational charges (masses). Finally, conservation of energy concept has also been investigated for massless fields.


We consider weak solutions of the zero-rest-mass (z. r. m.) equations described in Eastwood et al . (1981). The space of hyperfunctions, which contains the space of distributions, is defined and we consider hyperfunction solutions of the equations on real Minkowski space M I and its conformal compactification M . We define a hyperfunction z. r. m. field to be future or past analytic if it is the boundary value of a holomorphic z. r. m. field on the future or past tube of complex Minkowski space respectively; and we demonstrate that any field on M I that is the sum of future and past analytic fields extends as a hyperfunction z. r. m. field to all of M . It is shown that any distribution solution on M I splits as required and hence extends as a hyperfunction solution to M . Twistor methods are then used to show that the same applies in the more general case of hyperfunction solutions on M I . This leads to an alternative proof of the main result of Wells (1981): a hyperfunction z. r. m. field on compactified real Minkowski space is a unique sum of future and past analytic solutions.


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