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How the Little Group Constrains Massless Field Representations in Higher Even Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Assuming trivial action of Euclidean translations of the little group, we derive a simple correspondence between massless field representations transforming under the full generalized even dimensional Lorentz group, and highest weight states of the relevant little group. This yields a connection between `helicity' and `chirality' in all dimensions, and highlights the special nature of the restricted representations under `gauge' transformations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9209128,
  title  = {How the Little Group Constrains Massless Field Representations in Higher Even Dimensions},
  author = {Vineer Bhansali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9209128},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Harvard University, 10 pages, in plain TeX, uses harvmac (use big format). Talk presented at the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Salamanca, Spain (June 1992). Submitted to the Procedings