Published July 20, 1992
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Journal article
Paradoxical kinematic acausality in Weinberg's equatiOns for massless particles of arbitrary spin
Creators
- 1. Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics
Description
In this paper, Weinberg's equations for massless free particles of arbitrary spin are found to have acausal solutions. On the other hand, the m → 0 limit of Joos-Weinberg's finite-mass wave equations satisfied by (j, 0) + (0, j) covariant spinors are free from all kinematic acausality. This paradoxical situation is resolved and corrected by carefully studying the transition from the classical group theoretical arguments to quantum mechanically interpreted equations
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Modern Physics Letters A
- Journal Volume
- 7
- Journal Issue
- 22
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1967-1974.
- ISSN
- 0217-7323
- CODEN
- MPLAEQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24012704
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CLASSICAL MECHANICS; GROUP THEORY; MASSLESS PARTICLES; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPIN; SPINORS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WEINBERG LEPTON MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS