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Opening the Pandora's box of quantum spinor fields

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arxiv 1711.00544 v2 pith:4KIIM4WG submitted 2017-11-01 hep-th math-phmath.MP

Opening the Pandora's box of quantum spinor fields

classification hep-th math-phmath.MP
keywords spinorsquantumalgorithmclassificationcovariantsextendedfieldsproblem
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Lounesto's classification of spinors is a comprehensive and exhaustive algorithm that, based on the bilinears covariants, discloses the possibility of a large variety of spinors, comprising regular and singular spinors and their unexpected applications in physics and including the cases of Dirac, Weyl, and Majorana as very particular spinor fields. In this paper we pose the problem of an analogous classification in the framework of second quantization. We first discuss in general the nature of the problem. Then we start the analysis of two basic bilinear covariants, the scalar and pseudoscalar, in the second quantized setup, with expressions applicable to the quantum field theory extended to all types of spinors. One can see that an ampler set of possibilities opens up with respect to the classical case. A quantum reconstruction algorithm is also proposed. The Feynman propagator is extended for spinors in all classes.

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