FeynCalc manual (development version)

GALRD

GALRD[mu,n,nb] denotes the perpendicular component in the lightcone decomposition of the Dirac matrix \gamma^{\mu } along the vectors n and nb in D dimensions. 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, GALND, GALPD, GSLPD, GSLND, GSLRD.

Examples

GALRD[\[Mu], n, nb]

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

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

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

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

GALRD[\[Mu], n, nb] . GALPD[\[Nu], n, nb] // DiracSimplify

-\frac{1}{4} \;\text{nb}^{\nu } (n\cdot \;\text{nb}) (\gamma \cdot n).\gamma ^{\mu }{}_{\perp }-\frac{1}{4} n^2 \;\text{nb}^{\nu } (\gamma \cdot \;\text{nb}).\gamma ^{\mu }{}_{\perp }

FCClearScalarProducts[]
SPD[n] = 0;
SPD[nb] = 0;
SPD[n, nb] = 2;
GALRD[\[Mu], n, nb] . GALPD[\[Nu], n, nb] // DiracSimplify

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

FCClearScalarProducts[]