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arXiv:2505.03551

From Mass-Shell Factorisation to Spin: An Attempt at a Matrix-Valued Liouville Framework for Relativistic Classical and Quantum Phase-Spacetime

M. J. Everitt

Published May 6, 2025• 0 citations
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Here we argue that spinor structure arises naturally if relativistic statistical mechanics is formulated directly on phase spacetime. Requiring a first-order phase-spacetime description that retains both mass-shell branches leads to a Clifford factorisation of the relativistic constraint and hence to a $4\times4$ spinor-matrix distribution function. We show that deformation quantisation leads to a phase-space formulation of spin quantum mechanics. We argue that projection onto positive- and negative-energy sectors recovers the standard relativistic classical transport equations in the appropriate scalar limits, while the corresponding left- and right- stargenvalue equations reproduce the constraint structure of the Dirac-Wigner formulation. The result is a phase-space route from relativistic statistical mechanics to spinor quantum mechanics, in which spin algebra emerges as the internal structure required by any relativistic statistical theory containing both mass-shell branches and the dimensions of angular momentum from quantum non-locality.

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10.48550/arxiv.2505.03551

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