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The method used by Carmeli to obtain a new form for the principal series of representations of the groupSL(2, C) is further generalized to all completely irreducible (finite and infinite-dimensional) representations of that group. This is done, following Naimark, by extending the meaning of one of the parameters appearing in the formula for the operators of the principal series of representations. As a result a new form for the complete series of representations of the groupSL(2, C) is obtained which describes the transformation law of an infinite set of quantities under the group translation in a way which is very similar, but as a generalization, to the way spinors appear in the finite-dimensional case. The finite-dimensional representation is then discussed in details and the relation between the new set of quantities (which becomes finite in this case) and 2-component spinors is found explicitly.
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Carmeli, M., Malin, S. Infinite-dimensional representations of the Lsorentz group: The complete series. Int J Theor Phys 9, 145–156 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807519
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