Unitary Representations Of The Poincare Group And Relativistic Wave Equations

Download or read book Unitary Representations Of The Poincare Group And Relativistic Wave Equations written by Y Ohnuki and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to an extensive and systematic study on unitary representations of the Poincaré group. The Poincaré group plays an important role in understanding the relativistic picture of particles in quantum mechanics. Complete knowledge of every free particle states and their behaviour can be obtained once all the unitary irreducible representations of the Poincaré group are found. It is a surprising fact that a simple framework such as the Poincaré group, when unified with quantum theory, fixes our possible picture of particles severely and without exception. In this connection, the theory of unitary representations of the Poincaré group provides a fundamental concept of relativistic quantum mechanics and field theory.