Higher Derivative Fermionic Field Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We carry out the extension of the covariant Ostrogradski method to fermionic field theories. Higher-derivative Lagrangians reduce to second order differential ones with one explicit independent field for each degree of freedom.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0203197,
title = {Higher Derivative Fermionic Field Theories},
author = {Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0203197},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
12 pages, ReVTeX; minor typos corrected; references updated; to appear in J. Phys. A