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On unitarity transformations and generators of lightlike poincaré representations

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Il Nuovo Cimento A (1971-1996)

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Explicit forms of Poincaré generators corresponding to lightlike irreducible unitary representations are discussed and connected. Using the Coester transformation, we obtain new forms of the generators in the lightlike countinuous-spin case showing a manifestly helicity character. These new forms and other well-known ones are related through unitary transformations (rotations in spin space) and are discussed in connection with the discrete-spin case.

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Si discutono e collegano forme esplicite di generatori di Poincaré che corrispondono a rappresentazioni unitarie irriducibili alla luce. Per mezzo della transformazione di Coester, si ottengono nuove forme dei generatori nel caso di spin continuo simile alla luce, che mostrano un carattere manifestamente di elicità. Si mettono in relazione queste nuove forme ed altre ben note attraverso trasformazioni unitarie (rotazioni nello spazio di spin) e si discutono in rapporto con il caso a spin discreto.

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Jaspers, M. On unitarity transformations and generators of lightlike poincaré representations. Nuov Cim A 35, 434–444 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02731778

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