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Unification of Spacetime Symmetries of Massive and Massless Particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

The internal space-time symmetries of relativistic particles are dictated by Wigner's little groups. The O(3)O(3)-like little group for a massive particle at rest and the E(2)E(2)-like little group of a massless particle are two different manifestations of the same covariant little group. Likewise, the quark model and parton pictures are two different manifestations of the one covariant entity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9602004,
  title  = {Unification of Spacetime Symmetries of Massive and Massless Particles},
  author = {Y. S. Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9602004},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages,LaTeX,based on a talk presented at the 2nd German-Polish Symposium on New Ideas in the Theory of Fundamental Interactions (Zakopane, Poland, September 11-15, 1995)