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Spin from J(2,C): SL(2,C) Spinor Transport on the Distinction Poset Gives the Dirac Propagator, Lorentz Covariance, and the Pauli Exclusion Principle

Eliam Raell

Published Mar 14, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper shows that spin-1/2 was already present in the algebraic structure of J(2,C) established in Paper IV. The Lorentz group SO(3,1) has double cover SL(2,C), the group of 2x2 complex matrices with determinant 1. SL(2,C) acts on J(2,C) by conjugation: M maps to A M A-dagger. Every causal edge in the distinction poset carries a natural SL(2,C) element constructed from the J(2,C) edge element.Five experiments confirm the complete spinor structure. All 20 tested edges give |det(A)| = 1.0000000 exactly. The 4x4 Dirac propagator built from left and right Weyl spinors achieves full rank 4 in five out of six pairs tested. The spinor propagator transforms as S_L maps to A S_L A-dagger under Lorentz boosts, with deviations below 0.001 for all tested velocities. The antisymmetrised tensor product of identical path amplitudes is exactly zero: the Pauli exclusion principle follows from the antisymmetry of SL(2,C) without any additional postulate.Spin, Lorentz covariance, and Fermi-Dirac statistics are three expressions of one algebraic fact: SL(2,C) acts on J(2,C) by conjugation.

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