Conserved currents of massless fields of spin s ≥ 1/2

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2033, 2003, Pages 1215-1239

  Anco, Stephen C ^a   Pohjanpelto, Juha ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation law; Killing spinor; Massless free field; Spinor field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHIRALITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MASS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0242382605     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2002.1070     Document Type: Article

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