Spinor and twistor formulations of massless particles with rigidity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.02.057zbMATH Open1368.81119arXiv1401.1901OpenAlexW2051762286MaRDI QIDQ2013475FDOQ2013475

Takafumi Suzuki, Shinichi Deguchi

Publication date: 8 August 2017

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

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.

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)

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