Learning about spin-one-half fields

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/27/1/004zbMATH Open1084.81039arXivhep-th/0507259OpenAlexW2952171353MaRDI QIDQ3376110FDOQ3376110

Authors: Peter Cahill, K. Cahill 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is hard to understand spin-one-half fields without reading Weinberg. This paper is a pedagogical footnote to his formalism with an emphasis on the boost matrix, spinors, and Majorana fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507259

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25)

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