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Model of massless relativistic particle with continuous spin and its twistorial description

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-08-01 v3

Abstract

We propose a new world-line Lagrangian model of the D=4 massless relativistic particle with continuous spin and develop its twistorial formulation. The description uses two Penrose twistors subjected to four first class constraints. After the first quantization of the world-line twistorial model, the wave function is defined by an unconstrained function on the two-dimensional complex affine plane. We find the twistor transform that determines the space-time field of the continuous spin particle through the corresponding twistor one, which plays the role of a prepotential. It is shown that this space-time field is an exact solution of the space-time constraints defining the irreducible massless representation of the Poincare group with continuous spin.

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@article{arxiv.1805.09706,
  title  = {Model of massless relativistic particle with continuous spin and its twistorial description},
  author = {I. L. Buchbinder and S. Fedoruk and A. P. Isaev and A. Rusnak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09706},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

1 + 19 pages, v3: minor corrections in the published version