One massless particle equals two Dirac singletons |
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Authors: | M. Flato C. Fronsdal |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dept. of Physics, University of California, 90024 Los Angeles, Calif., USA;(2) Present address: Physique-Mathématique, Faculté des Sciences, Mirande, Université de Dijon, 21 Dijon, France |
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Abstract: | The remarkable representations of the 3+2 de Sitter group, discovered by Dirac, later called singleton representations and here denoted Di and Rac, are shown to possess the following truly remarkable property: Each of the direct products Di Di, Di Rac, and Rac Rac decomposes into a direct sum of unitary, irreducible representations, each of which admits an extension to a unitary, irreducible representation of the conformal group SO(4, 2). Therefore, in de Sitter space, every state of a free, massless particle may be interpreted as a state of two free singletons — and vice versa. The term massless is associated with a set of particle-like representations of SO(3, 2) that, besides the noted conformal extension, exhibit other phenomena typical of masslessness, especially gauge invariance. |
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