DiracGammaExpand

Description

DiracGammaExpand[exp] expands all DiracGamma[Momentum[a+b+..]] in exp into (DiracGamma[Momentum[a]] + DiracGamma[Momentum[b]] + ...).

See also: DiracGamma, DiracGammaCombine, DiracMatrix, DiracSimplify, DiracSlash, DiracTrick.

Examples
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Momentum is the head of p-q, i.e., it is treated as one four-momentum.

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With DiracGammaExpand the Momentum[p-q] gets expanded.

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The inverse operation is DiracGammaCombine.

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In order to do non-commutative expansion use DiracSimplify.

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The FeynCalc Book   previousDiracGammaCombine   nextDiracGammaT

Converted from the Mathematica notebook DiracGammaExpand.nb