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How many elementary particles are predicted by Wigner's classification?

My understanding is that when it comes to the correspondence between representation theory and particle physics, every irreducible representation of the Poincare group has a corresponding fundamental particle.

My questions are as follows:

  1. are all of the currently known fundamental particles predicted to

    are all of the currently known fundamental particles predicted to exist by this correspondence idea?

    exist by this correspondence idea?
  2. does the traditional ISO(3,1) Poincare group/algebra predict the existence of supersymmetric

    does the traditional $ISO(3,1)$ Poincare group/algebra predict the existence of supersymmetric particles? If not, what superalgebra is needed?

    particles? If not, what superalgebra is needed?

How many elementary particles are predicted by Wigner's classification

My understanding is that when it comes to the correspondence between representation theory and particle physics, every irreducible representation of the Poincare group has a corresponding fundamental particle.

My questions are as follows:

  1. are all of the currently known fundamental particles predicted to exist by this correspondence idea?
  2. does the traditional ISO(3,1) Poincare group/algebra predict the existence of supersymmetric particles? If not, what superalgebra is needed?

How many elementary particles are predicted by Wigner's classification?

My understanding is that when it comes to the correspondence between representation theory and particle physics, every irreducible representation of the Poincare group has a corresponding fundamental particle.

My questions are as follows:

  1. are all of the currently known fundamental particles predicted to exist by this correspondence idea?

  2. does the traditional $ISO(3,1)$ Poincare group/algebra predict the existence of supersymmetric particles? If not, what superalgebra is needed?

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How many elementary particles are predicted by Wigner's classification

My understanding is that when it comes to the correspondence between representation theory and particle physics, every irreducible representation of the Poincare group has a corresponding fundamental particle.

My questions are as follows:

  1. are all of the currently known fundamental particles predicted to exist by this correspondence idea?
  2. does the traditional ISO(3,1) Poincare group/algebra predict the existence of supersymmetric particles? If not, what superalgebra is needed?