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

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/312MaRDI QIDQ4935702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. G. Zima, S. Fedoruk

Publication date 20 March 2000

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

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

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)

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.

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