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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