Propagators of the Dirac fermions on spatially flat FLRW space-times

DOI10.1142/S0217751X19500246zbMATH Open1409.81041arXiv1809.09374MaRDI QIDQ4627675FDOQ4627675

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Publication date: 11 March 2019

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

Abstract: The general formalism of the free Dirac fermions on spatially flat $(1+3)$-dimensional Friedmann-Lema^ itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes is developed in momentum representation. The mode expansions in terms of the fundamental spinors satisfying the charge conjugation and normalization conditions are used for deriving the structure of the anti-commutator matrix-functions and, implicitly, of the retarded, advanced, and Feynman fermion propagators. The principal result is that the new type of integral representation we proposed recently in the de Sitter case can be applied to the Dirac fermions in any spatially flat FLRW geometry. Moreover, the Dirac equation of the left-handed massless fermions can be analytically solved finding a general spinor solution and deriving the integral representations of the neutrino propagators. It is shown that in the Minkowski flat spacetime our new integral representation is up to a change of variable just like the usual Fourier representation of the fermion propagators. The form of the Feynman propagator of the massive fermions on a spatially flat FLRW spacetime with a scale factor of Milne-type is also outlined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09374

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zbMATH Keywords

integral representationDirac fermionsFeynman propagatorsFLRW space-timesMilne-type space-timeneutrino propagatorsspatially flat

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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