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

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2005.09.005zbMATH Open1130.22011arXivmath-ph/0502024OpenAlexW3101487639WikidataQ115357898 ScholiaQ115357898MaRDI QIDQ2490923FDOQ2490923

Authors: Richard Cushman, Wilberd van der Kallen 

Publication date: 18 May 2006

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

normal formcoadjoint orbitsmodulus[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Poincar%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD+group&go=Go Poincar�� group]adjoint orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences (20G45)

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