scientific article; zbMATH DE number 18619

MaRDI QIDQ3976023zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Abraham A. Ungar

Publication date 26 June 1992

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz boostsLorentz grouppolar decompositionquasidirect product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Loops, quasigroups (20N05) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Special relativity (83A05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0728.00004.] Properties of the polar decomposition in \(GL_ n(\mathbb{R})\) are taken as axioms for the concept of quasidirect products. As motivating example the product decomposition of the (proper, orthochronous) Lorentz group into the set of so-called Lorentz boosts and \(SO(3)\) is studied. [Reviewer's remark: if one normalizes the light velocity to 1 this decomposition reduces to a restriction of the polar decomposition].

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