Chiral fermions, massless particles and Poincare covariance

The coadjoint orbit method is applied to the construction of Hamiltonian dynamics of massless particles of arbitrary helicity. The unusual transformation properties of canonical variables are interpreted in terms of nonlinear realizations of Poincare group. The action principle is formulated in term...

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Main Authors: Krzysztof Andrzejewski, Agnieszka Kijanka-Dec, Piotr Kosiński, Paweł Maślanka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-06-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931500372X