Helicity wave functions for massless and massive spin-2 particles

D. Spehler, S. F. Novaes

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1991 · 32 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

Starting from general properties of a spin-2 field, we construct helicity wave functions in the framework of the Weyl-van der Waerden spinor formalism. We discuss here the cases of massless and massive spin-2 particles.

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