A new linear Dirac-like spin-3/2 wave equation using Clifford algebra

A new linear Dirac-like wave equation for spin-3/2 is derived, employing four of the seven irreducible eight-dimensional matrices obeying the Clifford algebra C7 with the wave function having the needed eight components only. Though this wave equation is not manifestly covariant and the wave function employed is not locally covariant, it is relativistically invariant and by its very derivation is connected to the Weaver, Hammer and Good (Phys. Rev.; 135: B241 (1964)) formalism for spin-3/2 by a chain of transformations which can be arbitrarily chosen to be either unitary or non-unitary. (author)