A Comment on Fermionic Tachyons and Poincare Representations

van Dam, H.; Ng, Y.J.; Biedenharn, L.C.

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(85)90961-X

A Comment on Fermionic Tachyons and Poincare Representations

Mar, 1985

4 pages

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Phys.Lett.B 158 (1985) 227-230

Published: 1985

DOI:

10.1016/0370-2693(85)90961-X

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IFP-250-UNC

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We extend Wigner's work on the wave equations for integer-spin particles to the spinorial case. A recent suggestion that the neutrino might be a fermionic tachyon is examined. We point out that a four-component Dirac equation cannot describe a fermionic tachyon.

POSTULATED PARTICLE: TACHYON
Dirac equation
FERMION: TACHYON
GROUP THEORY: LORENTZ
GROUP THEORY: REPRESENTATION

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