FIZIKA B 15 (2006)  2, 71-84

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THE MASSLESS SPIN-1 PARTICLES IN THE ROTATING SPACE-TIMES

MUSTAFA SALTIa, OKTAY AYDOGDUa, ALI HAVARE b and MURAT KORUNURc

aDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science, Middle East Technical University, 06531/Odtu, Ankara, Turkey
bDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Art and Science, Mersin University, 33343/Ciftlikkoy, Mersin, Turkey
cDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Art and Science, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
E-mail addresses: musts6@yahoo.com, oktay231@yahoo.com, alihavare@mersin.edu.tr, muratkorunur@yahoo.com

Received 12 December 2005;  Accepted 11 October 2006
Online 15 December 2006

We consider the massless Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation for the general rotating space-times, then find its second-order form for a given geometry. Using this second-order differential equation for two well-known cosmological models, the exact solutions of the massless Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation were obtained. On the other hand, by using spinor form of the Maxwell equations, the propagation problem is reduced to the solution of the second-order differential equation of a complex combination of the electric and magnetic fields. For these two different approaches, we obtain the spinors in terms of the field-strength tensor.

PACS numbers: 04.20.-q; 04.20.Jb
UDC 539.12

Keywords: exact solution, massless Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation, Maxwell equations

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