Mathews, P. M. ; Govindarajan, T. R. (1982) The lower bound on the minimal degree of the matrices in first-order relativistic wave equations Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 15 (7). pp. 2093-2100. ISSN 0305-4470
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Abstract
A proof is given, on the basis of a theorem due to Garding (1944), for a lower bound on the degree (l+2) of the minimal equation of matrices beta mu in first-order unique-mass relativistic wave equations. It is not necessary, for the applicability of the theorem, that a hermitising operator should exist or that the equation be irreducible; and the generalisation of the bound to multimass equations is also straightforward. The bound is not, in general, linked to the physical spin or spins s allowed by the wave equation or the maximum spin jm contained in the wavefunction. However, in the physically important case of irreducible equations which admit a hermitising operator, the bound becomes (l+2)>or= (2jm+1), which is stronger than the bound (2s+1) suggested in the recent literature.
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