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The connected -dimensional Poincare group is
The semidirect product records that Lorentz transformations act nontrivially on translations, which is what organizes momentum orbits. For a representative momentum , its little group is the stabilizer . Wigner's classification constructs irreducible particle representations by inducing a unitary irreducible representation of along the Lorentz orbit of .

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