Fermions in odd space-time dimensions: back to basics

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2005-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0502089v1

Few Body Syst. 37 (2005) 71-78

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00601-005-0111-5

It is a well known feature of odd space-time dimensions $d$ that there exist two inequivalent fundamental representations $A$ and $B$ of the Dirac gamma matrices. Moreover, the parity transformation swaps the fermion fields living in $A$ and $B$. As a consequence, a parity invariant Lagrangian can only be constructed by incorporating both the representations. Based upon these ideas and contrary to long held belief, we show that in addition to a discrete exchange symmetry for the massless case, we can also define chiral symmetry provided the Lagrangian contains fields corresponding to both the inequivalent representations. We also study the transformation properties of the corresponding chiral currents under parity and charge conjugation operations. We work explicitly in 2+1 dimensions and later show how some of these ideas generalize to an arbitrary number of odd dimensions.

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