Solution

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For a massive positive-energy orbit, choose with . Its little group is , whose unitary irreducible representations are the characters . Induction gives one-particle states on the mass shell , , labeled by mass and spin. For the Poincare group itself, single-valuedness gives ; its double cover permits half-integers, and its universal cover permits any real , producing anyonic spin in dimensions.

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