1998/04/07 by Valeri V. Dvoeglazov
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ph #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP #physics.class-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1238/physica.regular.064a00201
published as Phys.Scripta 64:201-204,2001 · ReVTeX file, 10pp., no figures
arxiv created 1998/04/07 · openalex publication_date 2001/09/01 · arxiv updated 2011/04/20 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
In the sixties Ogievetski and Polubarinov proposed a concept of a notoph, whose helicity properties are complementary to those of a photon. Then, this theory pepetually received the name of Kalb and Ramond. We analyze the theory of antisymmetric tensor fields in the view of the normalization problem. The obtained result is that it is possible to describe both photon and notoph degrees of freedom on the basis of the modified Bargmann–Wigner formalism for the symmetric second-rank spinor. We also briefly discuss recently claimed terms σ · [ A × A *].