FeynCalc manual (development version)

Nonrelativistic calculations

See also

Overview.

Manipulations of Cartesian tensors

Since version 9.3 FeynCalc can also deal with manifestly noncovariant expressions, such as 3-vectors, Kronecker deltas and Pauli matrices

CV[p, i]

\overline{p}^i

CV[p, i] CV[q, i]
% // Contract

\overline{p}^i \overline{q}^i

\overline{p}\cdot \overline{q}

CLC[i, j, k] CLC[i, j, l]
% // Contract

\bar{\epsilon }^{ijk} \bar{\epsilon }^{ijl}

2 \bar{\delta }^{kl}

CSI[i, j, i]
% // PauliSimplify

\overline{\sigma }^i.\overline{\sigma }^j.\overline{\sigma }^i

-\overline{\sigma }^j

PauliTrace[CSI[i, j, i, j]]
% // PauliSimplify

\text{tr}\left(\overline{\sigma }^i.\overline{\sigma }^j.\overline{\sigma }^i.\overline{\sigma }^j\right)

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The function LorentzToCartesian is used to break the manifest Lorentz covariance when doing nonrelativistic expansions

SP[p, q]
% // LorentzToCartesian

\overline{p}\cdot \overline{q}

p^0 q^0-\overline{p}\cdot \overline{q}