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Non-Standard Fermion Propagators from Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

It is shown that Weyl spinors in 4D Minkowski space are composed of primary fields of half-integer conformal weights. This yields representations of fermionic 2-point functions in terms of correlators of primary fields with a factorized transformation behavior under the Lorentz group. I employ this observation to determine the general structure of the corresponding Lorentz covariant correlators by methods similar to the methods employed in conformal field theory to determine 2- and 3-point functions of primary fields. In particular, the chiral symmetry breaking terms resemble fermionic 2-point functions of 2D CFT up to a function of the product of momenta. The construction also permits for the formulation of covariant meromorphy constraints on spinors in 3+1 dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9408024,
  title  = {Non-Standard Fermion Propagators from Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {Rainer Dick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9408024},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, Latex, LMU-TPW 94-10