FeynCalc manual (development version)

 

GALR

GALR[mu,n,nb] denotes the perpendicular component in the lightcone decomposition of the Dirac matrix \gamma^{\mu } along the vectors n and nb. It corresponds to \gamma^{\mu}_{\perp}.

If one omits n and nb, the program will use default vectors specified via $FCDefaultLightconeVectorN and $FCDefaultLightconeVectorNB.

See also

Overview, DiracGamma, GALN, GALP, GSLP, GSLN, GSLR.

Examples

GALR[\[Mu], n, nb]

\bar{\gamma }^{\mu }{}_{\perp }

StandardForm[GALR[\[Mu], n, nb] // FCI]

(*DiracGamma[LightConePerpendicularComponent[LorentzIndex[\[Mu]], Momentum[n], Momentum[nb]]]*)

Notice that the properties of n and nb vectors have to be set by hand before doing the actual computation

GALR[\[Mu], n, nb] . GALP[\[Nu], n, nb] // iracSimplify

\text{iracSimplify}\left(\bar{\gamma }^{\mu }{}_{\perp }.\left(\frac{1}{2} \overline{\text{nb}}^{\nu } \bar{\gamma }\cdot \overline{n}\right)\right)

FCClearScalarProducts[]
SP[n] = 0;
SP[nb] = 0;
SP[n, nb] = 2;
GALR[\[Mu], n, nb] . GALP[\[Nu], n, nb] // DiracSimplify

-\frac{1}{2} \overline{\text{nb}}^{\nu } \left(\bar{\gamma }\cdot \overline{n}\right).\bar{\gamma }^{\mu }{}_{\perp }

FCClearScalarProducts[]