International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 31 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 77-84
doi:10.1155/S016117120210620X
Born-infeld electrodynamics: Clifford number and spinor representations
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Prof. Popov Street 5, St. Petersburg 197376, Russia
Received 25 June 2001; Revised 26 December 2001
Copyright © 2002 Alexander A. Chernitskii. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The Clifford number formalism for Maxwell equations is considered. The Clifford imaginary unit for space-time is introduced as coordinate independent form of fully antisymmetric fourth-rank tensor. The representation of Maxwell equations in massless Dirac equation form is considered; we also consider two approaches to the invariance of Dirac equation with respect to the Lorentz transformations. According to the first approach, the unknown column is invariant and according to the second approach it has the transformation properties known as spinorial ones. The Clifford number representation for nonlinear electrodynamics equations is obtained. From this representation, we obtain the nonlinear like Dirac equation which is the form of nonlinear electrodynamics equations. As a special case we have the appropriate representations for Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics.