Weinberg propagator of a free massive particle with an arbitrary spin from the BFV-BRST path integral

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/312zbMATH Open0937.83024arXivhep-th/9807192OpenAlexW2000454862MaRDI QIDQ4935702FDOQ4935702

Authors: V. G. Zima, S. Fedoruk 

Publication date: 20 March 2000

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The transition amplitude is obtained for a free massive particle of arbitrary spin by calculating the path integral in the index-spinor formulation within the BFV-BRST approach. None renormalizations of the path integral measure were applied. The calculation has given the Weinberg propagator written in the index-free form with the use of index spinor. The choice of boundary conditions on the index spinor determines holomorphic or antiholomorphic representation for the canonical description of particle/antiparticle spin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9807192

Recommendations

• Propagators and path integrals
• A comparison of Faddeev and BFV phase-space path integrals
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1771878
• Scalar and spinning particles in a plane-wave field
• Feynman propagator for a spinless relativistic particle in Feshbach-Villars representation

zbMATH Keywords

path integralfree massive particle of arbitrary spinindex spinorWeinberg propagator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Special relativity (83A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Cited In (3)

• Uniform twistor-like formulation of massive and massless superparticles with tensorial central charges
• Propagators and path integrals
• Massive superparticle with tensorial central charges

This page was built for publication: Weinberg propagator of a free massive particle with an arbitrary spin from the BFV-BRST path integral

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4935702)