MASSLESS PARTICLES, ELECTROMAGNETISM, AND RIEFFEL INDUCTION
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N ov 1 99 4 Massless Particles , Electromagnetism , and Rieffel Induction
The connection between space-time covariant representations (obtained by inducing from the Lorentz group) and irreducible unitary representations (induced from Wigner's little group) of the Poincaré group is reexamined in the massless case. In the situation relevant to physics, it is found that these are related by Marsden-Weinstein reduction with respect to a gauge group. An analogous phenomen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reviews in Mathematical Physics
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0129-055X,1793-6659
DOI: 10.1142/s0129055x95000359