Orthochronous Lorentz group from the Cliffordian point of view

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Authors Pierrick Meignen

Publication date 24 August 1998

Published in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebrashyperbolic spacesisometry groupsLorentz quadratic formsorthochronous Lorentz group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43)

Review text

Using the Lorentz quadratic form \(q\) on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) of signature \((n-1,1)\), the orthochronous (future preserving half of) Lorentz group \(O^+(n-1,1)\), forms the full isometry group of the model of hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{H}^{n-1}\), formed by the projective image of the positive cone \(C=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n\mid q(x,x)<0,\;x_n>0\}\). Alternatively, in the upper half space model of \(\mathbb{H}^{n-1}\) the full isometry group can be described by the action of certain \(2\times 2\) matrices with entries in the Clifford group generated by vectors in a suitably defined Clifford algebra. In this paper, very explicit descriptions are obtained, at the level of elements, between these two representations of this isometry group.

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