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Quantization of the two-component fermion theory

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In this work the two-component fermion field, which has been recently studied byL. M. Brown, satisfying a second order Pauli wave equation has been quantized. Anticommutation rules for the two-component spinors describing the fermion field have been found which are particularly simple. At last, the possibility of extending to this case Wick’s theorem has been shown, and therefore rules of calculation for the Feynman diagrams are obtained, which are strictly closed to the rules for the quantum electrodynamics of Klein-Gordon particles.

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In questo lavoro si è quantizzato il campo fermionico a due componenti soddisfacente a un’equazione d’onda tipo Pauli del secondo ordine, che è stato recentemente studiato daL. M. Brown. Si sono trovate regole di anticommutazione particolarmente semplici per gli spinori a due componenti descriventi il campo fermionico. Infine si è indicata la possibilità di estendere al caso considerato il teorema di Wick e quindi si sono ottenute le regole di calcolo dei diagrammi di Feynmann: queste risultano come c’è da aspettarsi, strettamente analoghe a quelle che si hanno nell’elettrodinamica quantistica delle particelle di Klein-Gordon.

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Tonin, M. Quantization of the two-component fermion theory. Nuovo Cim 14, 1108–1119 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02728186

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