Higher Derivative Fermionic Field Theories

Abstract

We carry out the extension of the covariant Ostrogradski method to fermionic field theories. Higher-derivative Lagrangians reduce to second order differential ones with one explicit independent field for each degree of freedom.

12 pages, ReVTeX; minor typos corrected; references updated; to appear in J. Phys. A

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