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We offer a semi-classical re-interpretation of the 4D Majorana fermion mass term as an ‘influence action’ in the Schwinger-Keldysh formulation of fermionic Quantum Field Theories.
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ArXiv ePrint: 1708.00338
Affiliation began 1 August 2017. (Department of Physics, National Central University, Chungli 32001, Taiwan)
Affiliation ended 22 May 2017. (Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812, U.S.A.)
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Chu, YZ. A semi-classical Schwinger-Keldysh re-interpretation of the 4D Majorana fermion mass term. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 13 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)013
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