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    Left and right handedness of fermions and bosons

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    It is shown, by using Grassmann space to describe the internal degrees of freedom of fermions and bosons, that the Weyl like equation exists not only for massless fermions but also for massless gauge bosons. The corresponding states have well defined helicity and handedness. It is shown that spinors and gauge bosons of the same handedness only interact.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX, no figures, typographical errors corrected and a few sentences added to clarify some issue

    The structure of the quantum mechanical state space and induced superselection rules

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    The role of superselection rules for the derivation of classical probability within quantum mechanics is investigated and examples of superselection rules induced by the environment are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, Standard Latex 2.0

    The Pauli Equation for Probability Distributions

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    The "marginal" distributions for measurable coordinate and spin projection is introduced. Then, the analog of the Pauli equation for spin-1/2 particle is obtained for such probability distributions instead of the usual wave functions. That allows a classical-like approach to quantum mechanics. Some illuminating examples are presented.Comment: 14 pages, ReVTe
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