A New Identity in Minkowski Space and Some Applications of It

1997/01/20 by Alexander L. Bondarev
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph

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published as Theor.Math.Phys. 101 (1994) 1376-1379; Teor.Mat.Fiz. 101 (1994) 315-319 · 6 pages, LaTeX

arxiv created 1997/01/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Schouten's identity is used to obtain a new identity in Minkowski space. Some applications of the new identity in high-energy physics are considered, including the possibility of significant shortening of the expressions for the traces of products of ten and more Dirac gamma-matrices.

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