FeynCalc manual (development version)

InsideDiracTrace

InsideDiracTrace is an option of DiracSimplify and some other functions dealing with Dirac algebra. If set to True, the function assumes to operate inside a Dirac trace, i.e., products of an odd number of Dirac matrices are discarded. For more details, see the documentation for DiracSimplify.

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Overview

Examples

DiracSimplify[GA[\[Mu], \[Nu], \[Rho]]]

\bar{\gamma }^{\mu }.\bar{\gamma }^{\nu }.\bar{\gamma }^{\rho }

A trace of an 3 Dirac matrices vanishes:

DiracSimplify[GA[\[Mu], \[Nu], \[Rho]], InsideDiracTrace -> True]

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