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Particle types are identified with unitary irreducible representations of the Poincare group.

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Is it true that particle types are identified with unitary irreducible representations of the Poincare group?

Yes. Particle types are standardly identified with unitary irreducible representations of the Poincare group, following Wigner's fundamental classification.

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The analysis

The claim is a standard tenet of relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (Wigner's classification). Retrieved papers such as [1], [3], and [7] explicitly discuss elementary particles and their description via unitary irreducible representations of the Poincare group.

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Elementary particles with continuous spin
2017
The paper reviews how elementary particles are described by unitary irreducible representations of the isometry group, such as the Poincare group.
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Bekaert, X. & Skvortsov, E. (2017). Elementary particles with continuous spin. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X17300198

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Reciprocal relativity of noninertial frames: quantum mechanics
2006
It notes Wigner's foundational work showing that special relativistic quantum mechanics and particles follow from representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz (Poincare) group.
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Low, S. (2006). Reciprocal relativity of noninertial frames: quantum mechanics. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/40/14/015

BMS Representations for Generic Supermomentum
2025
The work discusses standard Poincare particles in relation to representations of the Poincare group.
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Bekaert, X. & Herfray, Y. (2025). BMS Representations for Generic Supermomentum. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-025-05513-0

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The claim is a standard tenet of relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (Wigner's classification). Retrieved papers such as [1], [3], and [7] explicitly discuss elementary particles and their description via unitary irreducible representations of the Poincare group.

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