PARTICLE PHYSICS AS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE POINCARE ALGEBRA.
Paper in proceeding, 2005

Eugene Wigner showed already in 1939 that the elementary particles are related to the irreducible representations of the Poincare algebra. In the light-cone frame formulation of quantum field theory one can extend these representations to depend also on a coupling constant. The representations then become non-linear and contain the interaction terms which are shown to have strong uniqueness. Extending the algebra to supersymmetry it is shown that two field theories stick out, N=4 Yang-Mills and N=8 Supergravity and their higher dimensional analogues. I also discuss string theory from this starting point.

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Lars Brink

Chalmers, Department of Theoretical Physics and Mechanics, Elementary Particle Physics

Symposium Henri Poincare, Brussels 2004

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Physical Sciences

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10/6/2017