On the Decomposition of Spinor Fields which satisfy a Nonlinear Higher Order Equation

A field theory which is based entirely on fermion fields is non-renormalizable if the kinetic energy contains only derivatives of first order and therefore higher derivatives have to be included. Such field theories may be useful for describing preons and their interaction. In this note we show that a spinor field which satisfies a higher order field equation with an arbitrary nonlinear selfinteraction can be written as a sum of fields which satisfy first order equations.