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Conformal Primary Basis for Dirac Spinors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-11-26 v3

Abstract

We study solutions to the Dirac equation in Minkowski space R1,d+1\mathbb{R}^{1,d+1} that transform as dd-dimensional conformal primary spinors under the Lorentz group SO(1,d+1)SO(1,d+1). Such solutions are parameterized by a point in Rd\mathbb{R}^d and a conformal dimension Δ\Delta. The set of wavefunctions that belong to the principal continuous series, Δ=d2+iν\Delta =\frac{d}2 + i\nu, with ν0\nu\geq 0 and νR\nu \in \mathbb{R} in the massive and massless cases, respectively, form a complete basis of delta-function normalizable solutions of the Dirac equation. In the massless case, the conformal primary wavefunctions are related to the wavefunctions in momentum space by a Mellin transform.

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@article{arxiv.2009.02938,
  title  = {Conformal Primary Basis for Dirac Spinors},
  author = {Lorenzo Iacobacci and Wolfgang Mück},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02938},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages, v2: added references, v3: added calculation of the explicit form of the wave function

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