Hadamard--Tetrahedral Symmetric Spacetime and Clifford-Like Factorizations of Dirac and Maxwell Operators

Abstract

A symmetric representation of Minkowski spacetime is constructed by combining a normalized fourth-order Hadamard transformation with an imaginary temporal coordinate. The resulting complex coordinates $q^a$ distribute time and space equally among four components and transform the Minkowski metric into a Euclidean-form complex bilinear metric. The four Hadamard spatial sign vectors form a regular tetrahedron and appear simultaneously in the transformed Dirac and Maxwell operators. The Dirac matrices satisfy a Euclidean-form Clifford algebra and contain tetrahedral combinations of Pauli matrices, whereas the Riemann--Silberstein Maxwell matrices realize the corresponding spin-1 structure. A gauge-invariant QED Lagrangian is formulated in the same coordinates. In Fourier space, the Dirac and Maxwell systems are governed by the common invariant $κ_aκ^a$, while the complete Maxwell operator admits an exact rectangular Clifford-like factorization. The formulation is further extended to the weak-field Einstein--Dirac--Maxwell system. In harmonic gauge, the linearized gravitational field is governed by the same scalar wave operator $\Box_q$, while gravitational corrections to the Dirac and Maxwell equations enter through the perturbed tetrad, spin connection, and curvature. This common principal-operator structure suggests shared spectral kernels and scalar-wave preconditioning for coupled field solvers.