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arxiv: 1805.09706 · v3 · pith:GLF3UJH2new · submitted 2018-05-24 · ✦ hep-th

Model of massless relativistic particle with continuous spin and its twistorial description

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keywords continuousspinmasslessmodelparticlespace-timetwistorialconstraints
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We propose a new world-line Lagrangian model of the D=4 massless relativistic particle with continuous spin and develop its twistorial formulation. The description uses two Penrose twistors subjected to four first class constraints. After the first quantization of the world-line twistorial model, the wave function is defined by an unconstrained function on the two-dimensional complex affine plane. We find the twistor transform that determines the space-time field of the continuous spin particle through the corresponding twistor one, which plays the role of a prepotential. It is shown that this space-time field is an exact solution of the space-time constraints defining the irreducible massless representation of the Poincare group with continuous spin.

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