A no-go theorem for the n-twistor description of a massive particle
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✦ hep-th
math-phmath.MP
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particleexpressionmassivetwistordescriptioncasefailsfour-dimensional
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It is proved that the $n$-twistor expression of a particle's four-momentum vector reduces, by a unitary transformation, to the two-twistor expression for a massive particle or the one-twistor expression for a massless particle. Therefore the {\em genuine} $n$-twistor description of a massive particle in four-dimensional Minkowski space fails for the case $n\ge3$.
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