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Title: Hyperspin manifolds

Journal Article · · Int. J. Theor. Phys.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670769· OSTI ID:6939888

Riemannian manifolds are but one of three ways to extrapolate from fourdimensional Minkowskian manifolds to spaces of higher dimension, and not the most plausible. If we take seriously a certain construction of time space from spinors, and replace the underlying binary spinors by N-ary hyperspinors with new ''internal'' components besides the usual two ''external'' ones, this leads to a second line, the hyperspin manifolds /sub n/ and their tangent spaces d/sub n/, different in structure and symmetry group from the Riemannian line, except that the binary spaces d /sub 2/ (Minkowski time space) and /sub 2/ (Minkowskian manifold) lie on both. d/sub n/ and /sub n/ have dimension n = N/sup 2/. In hyperspin manifolds the energies of modes of motion multiply instead of adding their squares, and the N-ary chronometric form is not quadratic, but N-ic, with determinantal normal form. For the nine-dimensional ternary hyperspin manifold, we construct the trino, trine-Gordon, and trirac equations and their mass spectra in flat time space. It is possible that our four-dimensional time space sits in a hyperspin manifold rather than in a Kaluza-Klein Riemannian manifold. If so, then gauge quanta with spin-3 exist.

Research Organization:
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
OSTI ID:
6939888
Journal Information:
Int. J. Theor. Phys.; (United States), Vol. 25:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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