Normalization of a Pauli-Lubanski spin direction

ID: normalization-of-a-pauli-lubanski-spin-direction

The physical massive-particle Pauli-Lubanski pseudovector obeys and for classical rest-frame spin. Orthogonality by itself does not establish this normalization. In particular the components give ; dividing by is a unit spacelike normalization only when the cross product vanishes.

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