Physics Asked by Xelote on February 14, 2021
I am trying to compute the square of the slashed covariant derivative (the sum of the partial derivative and vector potential contracted with the gamma matrices) in terms of the square of the standard covariant derivative plus a term depending on the electromagnetic tensor and the commutator of the gamma matrices:
$$not D^2=D_μD^μ+ frac e 2 F_{μν}σ^{μν}$$ where $$not D = (partial_μ -ieA_μ)γ^μ$$ $$σ_{μν}=frac i2[γ^μ,γ^ν]$$ $$F_{munu} = partial_mu A_nu – partial_nu A_mu$$
However, I’m getting stuck with either $not A notpartial$ or $A_μ partial_nu σ^{μν}$ terms from the cross product which I’ve got not idea what to do with, since they’re clearly absent in the second term.
The commutator $[nabla_mu,nabla_nu]phi$ is
$$ (partial_mu+A_mu)(partial_nu+A_nu)phi- (partial_nu+A_nu)(partial_mu+A_mu)phi = partial_{munu}phi + A_mu partial_nuphi+(partial_mu A_nu) phi + A_nu partial_mu phi+ A_mu A_nu phi-(muleftrightarrow nu) = ((partial_mu A_nu)- (partial_nu A_mu))phi $$ Notice that we have both $A_mu (partial_nuphi) $ and $A_nu(partial_mu phi)$ when we expand the product $nabla_munabla_nu phi$ and they cancel when we subtract the second product $nabla_nunabla_muphi$.
Correct answer by mike stone on February 14, 2021
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