General Spin Sums in Quantum Field Theory

Abstract

In Quantum Field Theory, scattering amplitudes are computed from propagators which, for internal lines, are built upon spin/polarization-sum relationships. In turn, these are normally constructed upon plane-wave solutions of the free field equations. A question that may now arise is whether such spin/polarization-sums can be generalized. In the past, there has been a first attempt at generalizing spin sums for fermionic fields in terms of the Michel-Wightman identities. In this paper, we aim to find the most general spin sums for fermionic fields within the range of QFT.

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