On rotations in a pseudo-Euclidean space and proper Lorentz transformations

DOI10.1063/1.524785zbMath0483.22002MaRDI QIDQ3941612

K. N. Srinivasa Rao, A. V. Gopala Rao, D. Saroja

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.524785

zbMATH Keywords

rotations; Minkowski space; Lorentz transformations; pseudo-Euclidean space; pseudoorthogonal group; linear homogeneous transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

22E70: Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations

83A05: Special relativity

22E43: Structure and representation of the Lorentz group

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