Generalized Symmetries of Massless Free Fields on Minkowski Space

A complete and explicit classification of generalized, or local, symmetries of massless free fields of spin s ≥ 1/2 is carried out. Up to equivalence, these are found to consists of the conformal symmetries and their duals, new chiral symmetries of order 2s, and their higher-order extensions obtaine...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2008
Main Authors: Pohjanpelto, J., Anco, S.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2008
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/149003
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Cite this:Generalized Symmetries of Massless Free Fields on Minkowski Space / J. Pohjanpelto, S.C. Anco // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2008. — Т. 4. — Бібліогр.: 20 назв. — англ.

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Summary:A complete and explicit classification of generalized, or local, symmetries of massless free fields of spin s ≥ 1/2 is carried out. Up to equivalence, these are found to consists of the conformal symmetries and their duals, new chiral symmetries of order 2s, and their higher-order extensions obtained by Lie differentiation with respect to conformal Killing vectors. In particular, the results yield a complete classification of generalized symmetries of the Dirac-Weyl neutrino equation, Maxwell's equations, and the linearized gravity equations.
ISSN:1815-0659