A GEOMETRIC MODEL OF THE ARBITRARY SPIN MASSIVE PARTICLE

A new model of the relativistic massive particle with arbitrary spin [ the (m, s) particle] is suggested. The configuration space of the mode l is the product of Minkowski space and a two-dimensional sphere: M(6) = R(3,1) x S-2. The system describes Zitterbevegung at the classical level. Together with explicitly realized Poincare symmetry, the action functional turns out to be invariant under two types of gauge transfo rmations having their origin in the presence of two Abelian first clas s constraints in the Hamilton formalism. These constraints correspond to strong conservation for the phase space counterparts of the Casimir operators of the Poincare group. Canonical quantization of the model leads to equations on the wave functions which prove to be equivalent to the relativistic wave equations for the massive spin s field.