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A spinorial perspective on massless photons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We exploit the fact that, in Minkowski space-time, gamma matrices are possibly more fundamental than the metric to describe how gauge invariance at perturbative level enforces a Lagrangian for spinor electrodynamics with massless photons. The term quadratic in the potential arises naturally in the gauge-fixed Lagrangian but has vanishing coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0701013,
  title  = {A spinorial perspective on massless photons},
  author = {Giampiero Esposito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0701013},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, Plain Tex

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