On the group theory of the polarization states of a massless field

DOI10.1063/1.530562zbMath0797.22013OpenAlexW2084391618MaRDI QIDQ4298627

Nadav M. Shnerb, Lawrence P. Horwitz

Publication date: 9 August 1994

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://cds.cern.ch/record/257863

zbMATH Keywords

gauge invariancegauge fieldmassless fieldMaxwell fieldrepresentations of the Poincaré groupvector potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

Cites Work

• Irreducible unitary representations of the Lorentz group
• The quantum relativistic two-body bound state. I. The spectrum
• Zero-mass and nondecomposable representations
• A Relativistic Cut-Off for Classical Electrodynamics
• Mathematical Formulation of the Quantum Theory of Electromagnetic Interaction

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