Fermions via spinor-valued one-forms

DOI10.1142/S0217751X13501133zbMATH Open1277.81064arXiv1212.3452MaRDI QIDQ2866876FDOQ2866876

Authors: Alexander Torres-Gomez, Kirill Krasnov 

Publication date: 9 December 2013

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Spinor-valued one-forms (Rarita-Schwinger fields) are normally used in the context of supergravity, where they describe spin 3/2 particles (gravitinos). Indeed, when decomposed into irreducible representations of the Lorentz group such a field contains both a spin 1/2 and a spin 3/2 component, and the Rarita-Schwinger Lagrangian is designed to make only the spin 3/2 propagate. We point out that the opposite construction is also possible, and give a spinor-valued one-form field Lagrangian that describes a propagating spin 1/2 particle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3452

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zbMATH Keywords

fermionssecond-order fermionic Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25)

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