https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3111-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Conformally covariant vector–spinor field in de Sitter space
1
Department of Physics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2
Department of Physics, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
* e-mail: mtakook@yahoo.com
** e-mail: takook@razi.ac.ir
Received:
30
May
2014
Accepted:
27
September
2014
Published online:
29
October
2014
In this paper, we study conformally invariant field equations for a vector–spinor field in the de Sitter space-time. The solutions are also obtained in terms of the de Sitter–Dirac plane waves. The related two-point functions are calculated in both the de Sitter ambient space formalism and intrinsic coordinates. In order to study the conformal invariance, Dirac’s six-cone formalism is utilized in which the field equations are expressed in a manifestly conformal way in
-dimensional conformal space and then followed by a projection to the de Sitter space.
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