Weyl, Majorana and Dirac fields from a unified perspective
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-01 v2
Abstract
A self-contained derivation of the formalism describing Weyl, Majorana and Dirac fields from a unified perspective is given based on a concise description of the representation theory of the proper orthochronous Lorentz group. Lagrangian methods play no role in the present exposition, which covers several fundamental aspects of relativistic field theory which are commonly not included in introductory courses when treating fermionic fields via the Dirac equation in the first place.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.00146,
title = {Weyl, Majorana and Dirac fields from a unified perspective},
author = {Andreas Aste},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00146},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
28 pages, 2 figures, one new section and two references added