Algebraic and Geometric Structures in Special Relativity

DOI10.1007/3-540-34523-X_4MaRDI QIDQ3527164zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Domenico Giulini

Publication date 25 September 2008

Published in Special Relativity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0602018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Special relativity (83A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: I review, some of the algebraic and geometric structures that underlie the theory of Special Relativity. This includes a discussion of relativity as a symmetry principle, derivations of the Lorentz group, its composition law, its Lie algebra, comparison with the Galilei group, Einstein synchronization, the lattice of causally and chronologically complete regions in Minkowski space, rigid motion (the Noether-Herglotz theorem), and the geometry of rotating reference frames. Representation-theoretic aspects of the Lorentz group are not included. A series of appendices present some related mathematical material.

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