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Journal of Modern Physics, 2012, 3, 887-894 /10.4236/jmp.2012.39116 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jmp) Dirac Hamiltonian with Imaginary Mass and Induced Helicity—Dependence by Indefinite Metric Ulrich D. Jentschura1,2 1Department of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Email: ulj@ Received June 27, 2012; revised July 29, 2012; accepted August 7, 2012 ABSTRACT It is of general theoretical interest to investigate the properties of superluminal matter wave equations for spin one-half particles. One can either enforce superluminal propagation by an explicit substitution of the real mass term for an imaginary mass, or one can use a matrix representation of the imaginary unit that multiplies the mass term. The latter leads to the tachyonic Dirac equation, while the equation obtained by the substitution m im in the Dirac equation is naturally referred to as the imaginary-mass Dirac equation. Both the tachyonic as well as the imaginary-mass Dirac Hamiltonians commute with the helicity operator. Both Hamiltonians are pseudo-Hermitian and also possess additional modified pseudo-Hermitian properties, leading to constraints on the resonance eigenvalues. Here, by an explicit calcu- lation, we show that specific sum rules over the spectrum hold for the wave functions corresponding to the well-defined real energy eigenvalues and complex resonance and anti-resonance energies. In the quantized imaginary-mass Dirac field, one-particle states of right-handed helicity acquire a negative norm (“indefinite met