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Singletons, Physics in AdS Universe and Oscillations of Composite Neutrinos

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The study starts with the kinematical aspects of singletons and massless particles. It extends to the beginning of a field theory of composite elementary particles and its relations with conformal field theory, including very recent developments and speculations about a possible interpretation of neutrino oscillations and CP violation in this context. This framework was developed during the past twenty years. Based on our deformation philosophy of physical theories, it deals with elementary particles composed of singletons in anti-De Sitter spacetime.

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    Moshé Flato & Christian Frønsdal

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Flato, M., Frønsdal, C. & Sternheimer, D. Singletons, Physics in AdS Universe and Oscillations of Composite Neutrinos. Letters in Mathematical Physics 48, 109–119 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007599719467

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