The exponential map for the unitary group SU(2,2)

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/20/017MaRDI QIDQ4874994zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 11 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408145

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac matricesexponential mapgeneratortraceless matrixunitary group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

Abstract: In this article we extend our previous results for the orthogonal group, $SO(2,4)$, to its homomorphic group $SU(2,2)$. Here we present a closed, finite formula for the exponential of a $4imes4$ traceless matrix, which can be viewed as the generator (Lie algebra elements) of the $SL(4,C)$ group. We apply this result to the $SU(2,2)$ group, which Lie algebra can be represented by the Dirac matrices, and discuss how the exponential map for $SU(2,2)$ can be written by means of the Dirac matrices.

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