The Minkowski group

DOI10.1007/BF00211705MaRDI QIDQ793976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erich W. Ellers

Publication date 1984

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00211705

zbMATH Keywords

Bachmann characterizationgeometric axiomsgroup-theoreticMinkowskian geometrymotion groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

Review text

The author investigates the length problem in Euclidean and Minkowskian vector spaces, i.e. spaces V with dim \(V\geq 3\) and \(\dim Rad(V)=1\). Let \(g\in 0^+(V)\), the Minkowskian group of V, then \(g=h_ 1h_ 2...h_ s\), where the \(h_ i\) are halfturns. The author determines the minimal number s as a function of dim B(g), where \(B(g)=\{v^ g-v| v\in V\}=\) the path of g. The proofs depend heavily on the results of the author's paper in Abh. Math. Semin. Univ. Hamb. 46, 97-127 (1978; Zbl 0367.50002).

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