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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 60 No. 6 (1978) pp. 1940-1942

Letters

Covariant Canonical Quantization of Massless Spin 3/2 Field in General Covariant Gauges

Toshiei Kimura

Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hiroshima University, Takehara, Hiroshima 725

(Received August 25, 1978)

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/60/1940/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.60.1940

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References:

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   D. Z. Freedman, P. van Nieuwenhuizen and S. Ferrara, Phys. Rev. D 13 (1976), 3214[APS].
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3. P. A. M. Dirac, Can. J. Math. 2 (1950), 129; Lecture on Quantum Mechanics (Yeshiba University, 1964).
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5. For the quantum electrodynamics such a formalism was first given by N. Nakanishi, Prog. Theor. Phys. 35 (1966), 1111[PTP]; ibid. 38 (1967), 881[PTP].
6. Our conventions are: \hbar= c = 1, g_µν =diag. (1, -1, -1, -1), { γ^µ, γ^ν } = 2g^µν, γ₅ = i γ₀ γ₁ γ₂ γ₃, ε⁰¹²³ = 1, σ_µν = i(γ_µ γ_ν - γ_ν γ_µ)/2
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Citing Article(s) :

1. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 61 No. 4 (1979) pp. 1211-1228 :

   Canonical Quantization of Massless and Massive Spin 3/2 Field in General Covariant Gauges

   Ryusuke Endo and Toshiei Kimura

2. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 61 No. 4 (1979) pp. 1229-1234 :

   Energy Density Commutator for Massless Spin 3/2 Field in a Covariant Gauge

   Ryusuke Endo, Akira Hasumi and Toshiei Kimura

3. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 62 No. 1 (1979) pp. 305-307 :

   Covariant Canonical Quantization of Massless Rarita-Schwinger Field

   Masanori Okawa

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