The Dirac Sea

Jonathan Dimock

doi:10.1007/s11005-011-0496-7

The Dirac Sea

Jonathan Dimock

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Abstract

We give an alternate definition of the free Dirac field featuring an explicit construction of the Dirac sea. The treatment employs a semi-infinite wedge product of Hilbert spaces. We also show that the construction is equivalent to the standard Fock space construction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-166
Number of pages	10
Journal	Letters in Mathematical Physics
Volume	98
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-011-0496-7
State	Published - Nov 2011

Keywords

Dirac sea
hole theory
semi-infinite wedge product

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