The Rarita-Schwinger paradoxes
- 21 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 20 (18), 6581-6589
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/20/18/053
Abstract
The Rarita-Schwinger field coupled to an external electromagnetic field is reduced to a constrained mechanical model. It is shown that, guided by the mechanical model with the linear supplementary condition, both the non-positive definiteness of the anticommutators and the non-causal modes of propagation (the Rarita-Schwinger paradoxes) have the same origin.Keywords
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