Pseudoclassical theories of Majorana, Weyl, and Majorana-Weyl particles

DOI10.1007/BF02634058zbMATH Open0978.81518arXivhep-th/9608088MaRDI QIDQ1294872FDOQ1294872

R. P. Grigoryan, G. V. Grigoryan, Igor V. Tyutin

Publication date: 6 February 2002

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A pseudoclassical theories of Majorana, Weyl and Majorana--Weyl particles in the space--time dimensions $D=2n$ are constructed. The canonical quantization of these theories is carried out and as a result we obtain the quantum mechanical description of neutral particle in $D=2n$ , Weyl particle in $D=2n$ and neutral Weyl particle in $D=4n+2$. In $D=2,4(mmod8)$ dimensional space--time the description of the neutral particle coincides with the field theoretical description of the Majorana particle in the Foldy--Wouthuysen representation. In $D=8k+2$ dimensions the neutral Weyl particle coincides with the Majorana--Weyl particle in the Foldy--Wouthuysen representation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608088

zbMATH Keywords

neutral particlecanonical quantizationFoldy-Wouthuysen representationMajorana particleMajorana-Weyl particleWeyl particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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