
(k þ 1)-forms to k-forms and which satisfies the
homotopy equation dSþSd = 1. The kernel
k
(x, y)
of S
k
has singularities of the form (x y)=k x yk
d
.
The transversality assumption allows Baillif to interpret
the determinant obtained by integrating the kernels
along the diagonal as a flat determinant in the sense of
Atiyah and Bott, whence the notation det
[
in the right-
hand side of [16].
Baillif (2004) did not give a spectral interpretation
of zeros or poles of the sharp determinant [16], but
he noticed that for jzj very small, suitably high
iterates of the D
k
(z) are trace-class on L
2
(R
d
),
showing that the corresponding regul arized determi-
nant has a nonzero radius of convergence under
weak assumptions. The spectral interpretation of the
sharp determinant [12] in arbitrary dimension, but
under additional assumptions, was subsequently
carried out by Baillif and the author of the present
article, giving a new proof of some of the results in
Ruelle (1990).
See also: Chaos and Attractors; Dynamical Systems and
Thermodynamics; Ergodic Theory; Hyperbolic Dynamical
Systems; Number Theory in Physics; Quantum
Ergodicity and Mixing of Eigenfunctions; Quillen
Determinant; Semi-Classical Spectra and Closed Orbits;
Spectral Theory for Linear Operators.
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Relativistic Wave Equations Including Higher Spin Fields
R Illge and V Wu¨ nsch, Friedrich-Schiller-Universita
¨
t
Jena, Jena, Germany
ª 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Introduction
The description of phenomena at high energies
requires the investigation of relativistic wave equa-
tions, that is, equations which are invariant under
Lorentz transformations. Our discussion will be given
classically (i.e., nonquantum). A classification of the
wave equations may be based on the spin of the
particles (or physical fields), which was discovered
for the electron by Goudsmith and Uhlenbeck in
1925. For the greater part of physics, the three spin
numbers s = 0, 1=2, and 1 are sufficient; the respec-
tive equations named after their discoverers Klein–
Gordon, Dirac, and Proca for massive fields and
D’Alembert, Weyl, and Maxwell for massless fields,
respectively (see the following section).
In their original form, these equations look rather
different. However, their translation into spinor form
shows that the wave equations for bosons and fermions
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