2 + 1 kinematical expansions: from Galilei to de Sitter algebras

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/20/307zbMATH Open0967.17020arXivmath-ph/9902006OpenAlexW2031746117MaRDI QIDQ4949094FDOQ4949094

Authors: Mariano Santander, Francisco J. Herranz 

Publication date: 27 April 2000

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

Abstract: Expansions of Lie algebras are the opposite process of contractions. Starting from a Lie algebra, the expansion process goes to another one, non-isomorphic and less abelian. We propose an expansion method based in the Casimir invariants of the initial and expanded algebras and where the free parameters involved in the expansion are the curvatures of their associated homogeneous spaces. This method is applied for expansions within the family of Lie algebras of 3d spaces and (2+1)d kinematical algebras. We show that these expansions are classed in two types. The first type makes different from zero the curvature of space or space-time (i.e., it introduces a space or universe radius), while the other has a similar interpretation for the curvature of the space of worldlines, which is non-positive and equal to $-1/c^2$ in the kinematical algebras. We get expansions which go from Galilei to either Newton--Hooke or Poincar'e algebras, and from these ones to de Sitter algebras, as well as some other examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9902006

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zbMATH Keywords

matching expansionsInönü-Wigner contractionkinematical Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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