The relativistic noncommutative nonassociative group of velocities and the Thomas rotation

DOI10.1007/BF03322653MaRDI QIDQ584432zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abraham A. Ungar

Publication date 1989

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03322653

zbMATH Keywords

Thomas rotationspecial relativityLoopLorentz acceleration transformationsnoncommutative, nonassociative grouprelativistically admissible velocitiesweakly associativeweakly commutative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22) Loops, quasigroups (20N05) General nonassociative rings (17A99)

Cites work

• Special relativity with Clifford algebras and 2×2 matrices, and the exact product of two boosts
• The maximal sub near-field of a near-domain
• ZT-subgroups of sharply 3-transitive groups

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• Hyperbolic trigonometry in the Einstein relativistic velocity model of hyperbolic geometry
• Equivalence of two gyrogroup structures on unit balls
• Weakly associative groups
• The equivalence of gyrocommutative gyrogroups and K-loops
• The hyperbolic derivative in the Poincaré ball model of hyperbolic geometry
• K-loops, gyrogroups and symmetric spaces
• Beyond the Einstein addition law and its gyroscopic Thomas precession. The theory of gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces
• Basarab loop and the generators of its total multiplication group
• A characterization of Bol left loops.
• The algebra of gyrogroups: Cayley's theorem, Lagrange's theorem, and isomorphism theorems
• Group-like structure underlying the unit ball in real inner product spaces
• Middle Bruck loops and the total multiplication group
• Extension of isometries in generalized gyrovector spaces of the positive cones
• The expanding Minkowski space

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