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Dirac symmetry operators from conformal Killing-Yano tensors. (English) Zbl 0879.58079

Summary: We show how, for all dimensions and signatures, a symmetry operator for the massless Dirac equation can be constructed from a conformal Killing-Yano tensor of arbitrary degree.

MSC:

58J60 Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.)
58J70 Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds
81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics
81Q05 Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics