Wednesday, February 10, 2016

quantum field theory - Spin-statistics theorem proof details


Recently I have read one book where there was some incomprehensible proof of the Pauli's spin-statistics theorem. I want to ask about a few details of the proof.


First, the author derives commutation (anticommutation) relations like [ˆψ(x),ˆψ(x)]± for arbitrary moments of time for scalar, E.M. and Dirac theory cases. He notices that all of them depend on the function D0=ei(p(xx))sin(ϵp(tt))ϵpd3p(2π)3,ϵ2p=p2+m2, which (as it can be showed) is Lorentz-invariant. For example, it is not hard to show that for fermionic field [Ψ(x),Ψ(x)]+=(iγμμ+m)D0(xx).


Second, he assumes that for the case of arbitrary integer spin 2n there exists a function Ψ(x), for which [ˆΨa(x),ˆΨb(x)]±=F 2nab(x)D0(xx), and for the case s=2n+1 there exists a function Ψ(x), for which [ˆΨa(x),ˆΨb(x)]±=F 2n+1ab(x)D0(xx), where Fkab refers to the x polynomial of rank k and the author (at this stage of the proof) doesn't clarify the sign of commutator.



How can one argue such a generalization from spin 0,12 and 1 cases on the arbitrary cases of spin value? It is a very strong assumption, because formally it almost proves Pauli's theorem.




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