Symbol c

The passage around this formula

Holding $\mathbf b$ , $\mathbf v$ , M , and $\langle$ $H_{\rm NR}$$\rangle$ fixed and sending c$\to$$\infty$ , the second term vanishes and the first survives unchanged, converting a state-dependent relativistic phase into a fixed, universal constant multiplying every vector in the fixed- M sector — Bargmann’s central charge, reconstructed as the low-velocity limit of a quantity that was never central to begin with. This is exactly the contraction procedure Inönü and Wigner formalized for groups and their representations in general [ 3 ] , applied here to one specific commutator rather than asserted as a general slogan. The nonrelativistic mass superselection rule is, on this reading, the shadow a fully…

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