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Orbital angular momentum and massless particles

M A Lohe

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The authors analyse certain realizations of the rotation group in which half-integer representations appear, even though he employs scalar fields only. This angular momentum is interpreted as being purely orbital, and is shown to apply only to massless particles. He discusses the double-valued nature of these representations, including transformation properties of the spinors, which are formed only from space coordinates x and delta / delta x. He describes also position and momentum operators which can be defined.


PACS

03.65.Fd Algebraic methods

MSC

20C35 Applications of group representations to physics

81R25 Spinor and twistor methods (See also 32L25)

Subjects

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 4 (April 1977)



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