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Relativistic equations and indecomposable representations of the Lorentz groupSL(2, ℂ)

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Relativistic equations in which the fields cotransform under the direct sum of ordinary indecomposable representations of the Lorentz group are derived and discussed.

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Talk given at the “Symposium on Mathematical Methods in the Theory of Elementary Particles”, Liblice castle, Czechoslovakia, June 18–23, 1978.

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Hlavatý, L., Niederle, J. Relativistic equations and indecomposable representations of the Lorentz groupSL(2, ℂ). Czech J Phys 29, 283–288 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01596664

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