Friday, 9 June 2017

quantum field theory - Some Majorana fermion identities


I have been struggling with these Majorana fermion identities for quite sometime now. I would be grateful if someone can help me with them.


Let λ,θ and ψ be 4-component Majorana fermions. Then apparently the following are true,




  • (ˉθγ5θ)(ˉψLθ)(ˉθγμμψL)=14(ˉθγ5θ)2(ˉψLγμμψL)




  • (ˉθγ5θ)(μˉψLγμθ)(ˉθψL)=14(ˉθγ5θ)2(μˉψLγμψL)





  • (ˉθγ5γμθ)(ˉψLθ)(ˉθψL)=14(ˉθγ5θ)2(ˉψγμψ)




  • (ˉθγ5θ)(ˉψLθ)(ˉθλ)=14(ˉθγ5θ)2(ˉψLλ)




I guess looking at the above that all the 4 have some generic pattern and hence probably require some same key idea which I am missing. Its not clear to me as to how to "pull out" the θs between the other fermions to outside and then again repack then into a (ˉθγ5θ). I will be happy to get some help regarding the above.




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