Composition of Lorentz transformations in terms of their generators

DOI10.1023/A:1020018616308MaRDI QIDQ1855259zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bartolomé Coll, Fernando San José Martínez

Publication date 4 February 2003

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0106052

zbMATH Keywords

Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formulaLie algebras of two-formsLorentz transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: Two-forms in Minkowski space-time may be considered as generators of Lorentz transformations. Here, the covariant and general expression for the composition law (Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula) of two Lorentz transformations in terms of their generators is obtained. Every subalgebra of the Lorentz algebra of such generators, up to one, may be generated by a sole pair of generators. When the subalgebra is known, the above BCH formula for the two two-forms simplifies. Its simplified expressions for all such subalgebras are also given.

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