I'm having a bit of difficulty trying to combine these four equations into one "covariant" type equation:
σ0σ0=σ0σ0σi=σi;i=1,2,3σiσ0=σi;i=1,2,3σiσj=δijσ0+iϵijkσk;i=1,2,3j=1,2,3k=1,2,3I want an equation in the form:
σμσν=?where
μ,ν=0,1,2,3The difficultly comes when you spot that
δμνσ0 fits a good part of the problem but then when you add in expressions like
δ0μσν it is spoilt when
ν=0 as you start to over count.
Any ideas or answers?
For those interested, the sigmas are the pauli matrices inc. 0 which is the 2x2 identity matrix.