A new interpretation for the mass of a classical relativistic particle.

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2005.09.005MaRDI QIDQ2490923zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Richard Cushman, Wilberd van der Kallen

Publication date 18 May 2006

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0502024

zbMATH Keywords

adjoint orbitscoadjoint orbitsmodulusnormal formPoincaré group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences (20G45) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: Based on a recent classification of coadjoint orbits of the full Poincar'{e} group, we give a new group theoretic interpretation for the mass of a classical relativistic particle.

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• Classical Lorentz Invariant Particles
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