English

Simple derivation of general Fierz-type identities

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Physics Education

Abstract

General Fierz-type identities are examined and their well known connection with completeness relations in matrix vector spaces is shown. In particular, I derive the chiral Fierz identities in a simple and systematic way by using a chiral basis for the complex 4×44\times4 matrices. Other completeness relations for the fundamental representations of SU(N) algebras can be extracted using the same reasoning.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412245,
  title  = {Simple derivation of general Fierz-type identities},
  author = {C. C. Nishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412245},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9pages. Few sentences modified in introduction and in conclusion. Typos corrected. An example added in introduction. Title modified