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It is shown that a local quantized field with a manifestly covariant transformation law under the Poincaré group cannot have nonvanishing matrix elements between the vacuum and an irreducible subspace of zero mass and infinite spin.
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Yngvason, J. Zero-mass infinite spin representations of the Poincaré group and quantum field theory. Commun.Math. Phys. 18, 195–203 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01649432
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