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What is the difference between a spinor and a vector or a tensor?
Why do we call a 1/2 spin particle satisfying the Dirac equation a spinor, and not a vector or a tensor?
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How quantum field transforms in case of some particular spin
Except when a particle is spin-0, field of all particles transforms when frame of reference is changed, and this defines what spin is. The question is, specifically how does the quantum field ...
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Symmetrical Spinors and Symmetrical Tensors
In Quantum Electrodynamics by Landau and Lifshiz there is the following:
The correspondence between the spinor $\zeta^{\alpha \dot{\beta}}$ and
the 4-vector is a particular case of a general ...
