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
Hauptverfasser: Duval, C., Elbistan, M., Horváthy, P.A., Zhang, P.-M.
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Sprache:eng
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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.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.01.048