Saturday, 15 August 2015

fermions - Legal values of spin-1/2 field can take: $mathbb{R}$, $mathbb{C}$, $mathbb{H}$, .. (Grassmann)?


For the spin-1/2 fermion field $\psi$, we may choose it to be a spinor which needs to be




  • Grassmann variable


but can also be



  • complex $\mathbb{C}$ Grassmann. (Dirac or Weyl spinor/fermion)

  • We can ask: Can be in real $\mathbb{R}$ Grassmann. (Majorana or Majorana-Weyl spinor/fermion)


What are the legal values of spin-1 field can take? real $\mathbb{R}$, complex $\mathbb{C}$, quaternion $\mathbb{H}$, .. (Grassmann)? (p.s. I remember S Adler tries to construct quaternion QFT -- is this related to the quaternion field.)




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