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

TL;DR

This paper develops a phase-space framework linking relativistic statistical mechanics to spinor quantum mechanics, revealing spin algebra as an internal structure arising naturally from relativistic constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a matrix-valued Liouville framework on phase spacetime that naturally incorporates spinor structures and connects classical and quantum relativistic theories.

Findings

Derives a Clifford factorisation of the relativistic constraint leading to spinor distributions.

Shows deformation quantisation yields a phase-space formulation of spin quantum mechanics.

Recovers standard relativistic transport equations and Dirac-Wigner structure in appropriate limits.

Abstract

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.