Erlangen Program at Large--2: Inventing a wheel. The parabolic one

arXiv0707.4024MaRDI QIDQ6206322FDOQ6206322

Publication date: 27 July 2007

Abstract: We discuss parabolic versions of Euler's identity e^{it}=cos t + i sin t. A purely algebraic approach based on dual numbers is known to produce a very trivial relation e^{pt} = 1+pt. Therefore we use a geometric setup of parabolic rotations to recover the corresponding non-trivial algebraic framework. Our main tool is Moebius transformations which turn out to be closely related to induced representations of the group SL(2,R). Keywords: complex numbers, dual numbers, double numbers, linear algebra, invariant, computer algebra, GiNaC

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Induced representations for locally compact groups (22D30) Algebraic structures (08A99) Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

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