FeynCalc manual (development version)

ImplicitPauliIndex

ImplicitPauliIndex is a data type. It mainly applies to names of quantum fields specifying that the corresponding field carries an implicit Pauli index.

This information can be supplied e.g. via DataType[QuarkFieldChi, ImplicitPauliIndex] = True, where QuarkFieldChi is a possible name of the relevant field.

The ImplicitDiracIndex property becomes relevant when simplifying noncommutative products involving QuantumFields via ExpandPartialD, DotSimplify.

See also

Overview, DataType, ImplicitSUNFIndex, ImplicitDiracIndex

Examples

Default (possibly unwanted) behavior

ex = QuantumField[QuarkFieldChiDagger] . CSI[i] . QuantumField[QuarkFieldChi]

\chi ^{\dagger }.\overline{\sigma }^i.\chi

ExpandPartialD[ex]

\overline{\sigma }^i.\chi ^{\dagger }.\chi

Now we let FeynCalc know that QuarkFieldChiDagger and QuarkFieldChi carry an implicit Pauli index that connects them to the Pauli matrix.

DataType[QuarkFieldChi, ImplicitPauliIndex] = True;
DataType[QuarkFieldChiDagger, ImplicitPauliIndex] = True;
ExpandPartialD[ex]

\chi ^{\dagger }.\overline{\sigma }^i.\chi