Orthogonal decomposition of Lorentz transformations

DOI10.1007/S10714-012-1489-2MaRDI QIDQ1943705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason Hanson

Publication date 20 March 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1072

zbMATH Keywords

decomposition of transformationsexponential mapLorentz algebraLorentz transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: The canonical decomposition of a Lorentz algebra element into a sum of orthogonal simple (decomposable) Lorentz bivectors is discussed, as well as the decomposition of a proper orthochronous Lorentz transformation into a product of commuting Lorentz transformations, each of which is the exponential of a simple bivector. As an application, we obtain an alternative method of deriving the formulas for the exponential and logarithm for Lorentz transformations.

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