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Relativistic diffusion of elementary particles with spin
We obtain a generalization of the relativistic diffusion of Schay and Dudley
for particles with spin. The diffusion equation is a classical version of an
equation for the Wigner function of an elementary particle. The elementary
particle is described by a unitary irreducible representation of the Poincare
group realized in the Hilbert space of wave functions in the momentum space.
The arbitrariness of the Wigner rotation appears as a gauge freedom of the
diffusion equation. The spin is described as a connection of a fiber bundle
over the momentum hyperbolic space (the mass-shell). Motion in an
electromagnetic field, transport equations and equilibrium states are
discussed.Comment: 21 pages,minor changes,the version published in Journ.Phys.