https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6769-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
BasisGen: automatic generation of operator bases
CAFPE, Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, 18071, Granada, Spain
* e-mail: jccriadoalamo@ugr.es
Received:
18
January
2019
Accepted:
11
March
2019
Published online:
21
March
2019
BasisGen is a Python package for the automatic generation of bases of operators in effective field theories. It accepts any semisimple symmetry group and fields in any of its finite dimensional irreducible representations. It takes into account integration by parts redundancy and, optionally, the use of equations of motion. The implementation is based on well-known methods to generate and decompose representations using roots and weights, which allow for fast calculations, even with large numbers of fields and high-dimensional operators. BasisGen can also be used to do some representation-theoretic operations, such as finding the weight system of an irreducible representation from its highest weight or decomposing a tensor product of representations.
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