A Theorem Concerning Lorentz Transformations

DOI10.2307/2323368MaRDI QIDQ5185028zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frederick Solomon

Publication date 1984

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2323368

zbMATH Keywords

boost matrixclassroom exampledecomposition of Lorentz matrixorthogonal matrixpolar decompositionsquare root

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization of matrices (15A23) Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Special relativity (83A05)

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