scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1422792

zbMATH Open0961.20056MaRDI QIDQ4946737FDOQ4946737

Authors Alexander Kreuzer 

Publication date 28 May 2001

zbMATH Keywords

rotationsLorentz groups\(K\)-loopsboostsrelativistic velocitiesThomas rotations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) Special relativity (83A05) Loops, quasigroups (20N05) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43)

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