A no-go theorem for the n-twistor description of a massive particle

作者:Okano Satoshi*; Deguchi Shinichi
来源:Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2017, 58(3): 031701.
DOI:10.1063/1.4976961

摘要

It is proved that the n-twistor expression of a particle's four-momentum vector reduces, by a unitary transformation, to the two-twistor expression for a massive particle or the one-twistor expression for a massless particle. Therefore the genuine n-twistor description of a massive particle in four-dimensional Minkowski space fails for the case n >= 3. Published by AIP Publishing.

  • 出版日期2017-3