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Generalized Symmetries of Massless Free Fields on Minkowski Space
Juha Pohjanpeltoa, Stephen C. Ancob a Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605, USA
b Department of Mathematics, Brock University, St. Catharines ON L2S 3A1 Canada
Abstract:
A complete and explicit classification of generalized, or local, symmetries of massless free fields of spin $s\geq1/2$ 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.
Keywords:
generalized symmetries; massless free field; spinor field.
Received: November 1, 2007; Published online January 12, 2008
Citation:
Juha Pohjanpelto, Stephen C. Anco, “Generalized Symmetries of Massless Free Fields on Minkowski Space”, SIGMA, 4 (2008), 004, 17 pp.
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