DiracSimplify

Description

DiracSimplify[expr] simplifies products of Dirac matrices in expr and expands non-commutative products. Double Lorentz indices and four vectors are contracted. The Dirac equation is applied. All DiracMatrix[5], DiracMatrix[6] and DiracMatrix[7] are moved to the right. The order of the other Dirac matrices is not changed.

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See also: Calc, DiracGammaExpand, DiracTrick.

Examples

This is a string of Dirac matrices in four dimensions.

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This is a string of Dirac matrices in D dimensions.

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By default [Graphics:Images/index_gr_13.gif]is moved to the right.

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Contrary to DiracTrick DiracSimplify does non-commutative expansion.

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With the option DiracCanonical an alphabetic ordering is done.

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Setting InsideDiracTrace->True assumes that a trace is still to be taken later on.

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Converted from the Mathematica notebook DiracSimplify.nb