Wigner–Souriau translations and Lorentz symmetry of chiral fermions
Chiral fermions can be embedded into Souriau's massless spinning particle model by “enslaving” the spin, viewed as a gauge constraint. The latter is not invariant under Lorentz boosts; spin enslavement can be restored, however, by a Wigner–Souriau (WS) translation, analogous to a compensating g...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physics letters. B 2015-03, Vol.742, p.322-326 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Chiral fermions can be embedded into Souriau's massless spinning particle model by “enslaving” the spin, viewed as a gauge constraint. The latter is not invariant under Lorentz boosts; spin enslavement can be restored, however, by a Wigner–Souriau (WS) translation, analogous to a compensating gauge transformation. The combined transformation is precisely the recently uncovered twisted boost, which we now extend to finite transformations. WS-translations are identified with the stability group of a motion acting on the right on the Poincaré group, whereas the natural Poincaré action corresponds to action on the left. |
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ISSN: | 0370-2693 1873-2445 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.01.048 |