Massless induced representation of the Poincare double cover

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For a future null standard momentum , choose Lorentz transformations and a unitary irreducible representation of its little group. The Wigner rotation acts on the internal state. The resulting induced representation acts on wavefunctions with invariant measure . Trivial little-group translations give fixed helicity; nontrivial translations give a continuous-spin representation with infinitely many polarization states.

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