Spinor and twistor formulations of massless particles with rigidity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.02.057MaRDI QIDQ2013475zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shinichi Deguchi, Takafumi Suzuki

Publication date 8 August 2017

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1901

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

Abstract: The 4-dimensional model of a massless particle with rigidity whose Lagrangian is proportional to its world-line curvature is reformulated in terms of spinor and twistor variables. We begin with a first-order Lagrangian that is equivalent to the original Lagrangian proportional to the extrinsic curvature of a particle world-line. The first-order Lagrangian is written in terms of spacetime and spinor variables, leading to a spinor representation of the Lagrangian. Then its corresponding action is expressed in terms of twistor variables, leading to the gauged Shirafuji action.

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