Realizations of generators of complex angular momentum

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 599-603
Author(s):  
Shuchi Bora ◽  
H. C. Chandola ◽  
B. S. Rajput

We use the generators of complex angular momentum in complex c3 space and derive the realizations of the homogeneous Lorentz group for nonzero real mass, zero mass, and imaginary mass systems. We use the appropriate little group for different systems to calculate the modifications in the spin contribution to angular momentum and the unphysical continuous spin representations are shown to be eliminated. We diagonalize the helicity operator in c3 space and obtain the generators of complex angular-momentum operators, which are shown to lead, in a general manner, to the standard helicity representations of the Poincare group for timelike and spacelike systems.

The global forms of the unitary irreducible representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group corresponding to zero mass and finite or continuous spin are constructed by means of the little-group technique from those of the two-dimensional Euclidean group, and it is shown that these representations may be derived from the helicity representation for positive mass by taking suitable limits.


1967 ◽  
Vol 164 (5) ◽  
pp. 1981-1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Delbourgo ◽  
Abdus Salam ◽  
J. Strathdee

1964 ◽  
Vol 136 (4B) ◽  
pp. B1137-B1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland L. Omnes ◽  
Victor A. Alessandrini

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