Simple Proof of Invariance of the Bargmann-Wigner Scalar Products

1995/10/11 by Marek Czachor, Czachor, Marek
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9510012

revtex, 8 pages, no figures

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Abstract

An explicitly covariant formalism for dealing with Bargmann-Wigner fields is developed. An invariance of the Barmann-Wigner norm can be proved in a unified way for both massive and massless fields. It is shown that there exists some freedom in the choice of the form of the Bargmann-Wigner scalar product.

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