Generalized symmetries of massless free fields on Minkowski space

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2008.004zbMATH Open1133.58029arXiv0801.1892OpenAlexW2097198448MaRDI QIDQ2473541FDOQ2473541

Authors: Stephen C. Anco, Juha Pohjanpelto 

Publication date: 27 February 2008

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A complete and explicit classification of generalized, or local, symmetries of massless free fields of spin $sgeq1/2$ is carried out. Up to equivalence, these are found to consists of the conformal symmetries and their duals, new chiral symmetries of order $2s$, and their higher-order extensions obtained by Lie differentiation with respect to conformal Killing vectors. In particular, the results yield a complete classification of generalized symmetries of the Dirac-Weyl neutrino equation, Maxwell's equations, and the linearized gravity equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1892

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zbMATH Keywords

spinor fieldgeneralized symmetriesmassless free field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

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