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Why relativistic wave functions should transform under Lorentz transformation and not Poincaré?

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Why relativistic wave functions should transform under Lorentz transformation and not Poincaré

One requires that a relativistic wave function should transform well under Lorentz transformation. Why we shouldn't rather have that it transforms well under Poincaré transformations? On Wu Ki Tung's book "Group theory in Physics" is written that, even if finite Lorentz group representations are not unitary with not-selfadjoint generators and hence they not correspond to any physical state $|\psi\rangle$, physical variables like position, momentum, or wave functions and fields should transform as finite dimensional representation of Lorentz group. I know that physical states arise naturally with the unitary irreducible representations of Poincaré group and are labeled by two indices (M,s) mass and spin. But physical states emerge also from the solution of relativistic wave equations involving $\psi(x)$. Then if I have a wave function $\psi(x)$ solution of these equation why i should require (if it is a condition that i impose) or, simply, it is straightforward that is a quantity that behaves well under elements of Lorentz group and not of the more general Poincarè's one? Does the translated (of a quantity $c$) wave function $\psi'(r)\equiv\psi(x-c)$ have some problems?