Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Mathematical Physics
35 (1994), S. 5000-5020
ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
The spherical wave expansion is derived for fields of particles of arbitrary spin and mass, and for arbitrary helicity, massless particles (such as the electromagnetic vector potential corresponding to photons). The starting point is Weinberg's characterization of relativistic, higher spin fields that transform according to general irreducible representations of the homogeneous Lorentz group. The expansion is a relativistic generalization of the familiar tensor and spinor spherical harmonics. It is useful for central force problems that arise, for example, in scattering processes off spherically symmetric solitonic backgrounds such as monopoles or skyrmions.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.530827
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