Maxwell field on the Poincare group

Abstract

The massless field of spin 1 is defined on the eight-dimensional configuration space; this space is a direct product of Minkowski space and of a two-dimensional complex sphere. Field equations for the spin-one field are derived from a Dirac-like Lagrangian separately for the translation group and Lorentz group parts. It is shown that a Dirac form of Maxwell equations (so-called Majorana-Oppenheimer formulation of electrodynamics) follows directly from the field equations of translation group part. The photon field is realized via Biedenharn type functions on the Poincar\'{e} group. This allows us to consider both Dirac and Maxwell fields on an equal footing, as the functions on the Poincar\'{e} group.