Pauli-Lubanski limit and stress-energy tensor for infinite-spin fields

Abstract

String-localized quantum fields transforming in Wigner's infinite-spin representations were introduced by Mund, Schroer and Yngvason. We construct these fields as limits of fields of finite mass $m\to 0$ and finite spin $s\to \infty$. We determine a string-localized infinite-spin quantum stress-energy tensor with a novel prescription that does not refer to a classical Lagrangean.

v3: 35 pages. Version as published. v2: Two substantial mistakes fixed, Sect. 2, 3, and 4 more appropriately organized

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