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    Extension of the Shirafuji model for Massive Particles with Spin

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    We extend the Shirafuji model for massless particles with primary spacetime coordinates and composite four-momenta to a model for massive particles with spin and electric charge. The primary variables in the model are the spacetime four-vector, four scalars describing spin and charge degrees of freedom as well as a pair of Weyl spinors. The geometric description proposed in this paper provides an intermediate step between the free purely twistorial model in two-twistor space in which both spacetime and four-momenta vectors are composite, and the standard particle model, where both spacetime and four-momenta vectors are elementary. We quantize the model and find explicitly the first-quantized wavefunctions describing relativistic particles with mass, spin and electric charge. The spacetime coordinates in the model are not commutative; this leads to a wavefunction that depends only on one covariant projection of the spacetime four-vector (covariantized time coordinate) defining plane wave solutions.Comment: Latex, 27 pages, appendix.sty, newlfont.sty (attached

    Energy efficiency in buildings as one of the solutions for achieving energy security

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    Energy is essential for economic development, food production and global security. According to the UN, the world will need at least 45% more energy by 2030. It is well known that resources we are using today for the energy production have very negative impact on the planet, especially for the climate change. Alternative resources that are renewable and don't have CO2 emission also have own disadvantages. For example, solar panels are quite expensive, depend on climate, need a lot of place and also there is a big issue with utilization of panels in the end of their life cycle. Wind farmas and hydroelectric power stations are located to far from consumers and transmission looses are very high in these cases. Indeed, in future scientists will solve these problems, but so far we have to deal with them. It means that the best solution would be to combine alternative energy resources and energy saving. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3606

    Master Higher-Spin Particle

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    We propose a "master" higher-spin (HS) particle system. The particle model relevant to the unfolded formulation of HS theory, as well as the HS particle model with a bosonic counterpart of supersymmetry, follow from the master model as its two different gauges. Quantization of the master system gives rise to a new form of the massless HS equations in an extended space involving, besides extra spinorial coordinates, also a complex scalar one. As solutions to these equations we recover the massless HS multiplet with fields of all integer and half-integer helicities, and obtain new multiplets with a non-zero minimal helicity. The HS multiplets are described by complex wave functions which are holomorphic in the scalar coordinate and carry an extra U(1) charge q. The latter fully characterizes the given multiplet by fixing the minimal helicity as q/2. We construct a twistorial formulation of the master system and present the general solution of the associate HS equations through an unconstrained twistor "prepotential".Comment: 21 pages, minor corrections, version to appear in Class. Quantum Gra

    New Model of Higher-Spin Particle

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    We elaborate on a new model of the higher-spin (HS) particle which makes manifest the classical equivalence of the HS particle of the unfolded formulation and the HS particle model with a bosonic counterpart of supersymmetry. Both these models emerge as two different gauges of the new master system. Physical states of the master model are massless HS multiplets described by complex HS fields which carry an extra U(1) charge q. The latter fully characterizes the given multiplet by fixing the minimal helicity as q/2. We construct the twistorial formulation of the master model and discuss symmetries of the new HS multiplets within its framework.Comment: 13 pages, talk given by E. Ivanov at the XII International Conference on Symmetry Methods in Physics (SYMPHYS-XII), Yerevan, Armenia, July 03 - 08, 2006; to be published in the Proceeding

    Two-twistor particle models and free massive higher spin fields

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    We present D=3 and D=4 models for massive particles moving in a new type of enlarged spacetime, with D-1 additional vector coordinates, which after quantization lead to the towers of massive higher spin (HS) free fields. Two classically equivalent formulations are presented: one with a hybrid spacetime/bispinor geometry and a second described by a free two-twistor dynamics with constraints. After quantization in the D=3 and D=4 cases, the wave functions are given as functions on the SL(2,R) and SL(2,C) group manifolds respectively, and describe arbitrary on-shell momenta and spin degrees of freedom. Finally, the D=6 case and possible supersymmetric extensions are mentioned.Comment: 37 pages, plain latex, v2. Text in Secs. 1 nd 4 enlarged, references added. Version to appear in JHE

    Bi-HKT and bi-Kaehler supersymmetric sigma models

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    We study CKT (or bi-HKT) N = 4 supersymmetric quantum mechanical sigma models. They are characterized by the usual and the mirror sectors displaying each HKT geometry. When the metric involves isometries, a Hamiltonian reduction is possible. The most natural such reduction with respect to a half of bosonic target space coordinates produces an N = 4 model, related to the twisted Kaehler model due to Gates, Hull and Rocek, but including certain extra F-terms in the superfield action.Comment: 31 pages, minor corrections in the published versio
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