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One massless particle equals two Dirac singletons
Authors:M. Flato  C. Fronsdal
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
Abstract:
The lsquoremarkable representations of the 3+2 de Sitter grouprsquo, 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 otimes Di, Di otimes Rac, and Rac otimes 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, lsquomasslessrsquo particle may be interpreted as a state of two free singletons — and vice versa. The term lsquomasslessrsquo 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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