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Massless Spinning Particles on the Anti-De Sitter Spacetime

In: Quantization, Coherent States, and Complex Structures

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  • Stephan De Bièvre

    (Université Paris VII, UFR de Mathématiques and Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Mathématique)

  • Salah Mehdi

    (Université Paris VII, UFR de Mathématiques and Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Mathématique)

Abstract

We show that unlike what happens on Minkowski spacetime, massless classical particles on the anti-de Sitter spacetime can have a true spin degree of freedom: their phase spaces are eight-dimensional and their world lines lightlike geodesics.

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  • Stephan De Bièvre & Salah Mehdi, 1995. "Massless Spinning Particles on the Anti-De Sitter Spacetime," Springer Books, in: J.-P. Antoine & S. Twareque Ali & W. Lisiecki & I. M. Mladenov & A. Odzijewicz (ed.), Quantization, Coherent States, and Complex Structures, pages 21-25, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4899-1060-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1060-8_2
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