The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1905), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It is...
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theory of the Poincaré group is an example of the representation theory of a Lie group that is neither a compact group nor a semisimple group. It is fundamental...
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manifold Poincaré duality Poincaré disk model Poincaré expansion Poincaré gauge Poincaré group Poincaré half-plane model Poincaré homology sphere Poincaré inequality...
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In theoretical physics, a super-Poincaré algebra is an extension of the Poincaré algebra to incorporate supersymmetry, a relation between bosons and fermions...
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Henri Poincaré in 1904, the theorem concerns spaces that locally look like ordinary three-dimensional space but which are finite in extent. Poincaré hypothesized...
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the theory of discrete groups that had developed in the theory of modular forms, in the hands of Felix Klein and Henri Poincaré. The initial application...
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general group. Lie groups appear in symmetry groups in geometry, and also in the Standard Model of particle physics. The Poincaré group is a Lie group consisting...
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Galilean transformation (redirect from Galilean group)
Lorentz transformations and Poincaré transformations; conversely, the group contraction in the classical limit c → ∞ of Poincaré transformations yields Galilean...
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Wigner's classification (category Representation theory of Lie groups)
representations of the Poincaré group which have either finite or zero mass eigenvalues. (These unitary representations are infinite-dimensional; the group is not semisimple...
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the Wightman axioms is that there is a Hilbert space, upon which the Poincaré group acts unitarily. In this way, the concepts of energy, momentum, angular...
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linear group: for instance, the special affine group is the subgroup defined by the semidirect product, SL(n, F) ⋉ Fn, and the Poincaré group is the affine...
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isometry group of the Poincaré half-plane model of the hyperbolic plane is PSL(2,R). The isometry group of Minkowski space is the Poincaré group. Riemannian...
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Sitter algebra to the super-Poincaré algebra as the AdS radius diverges R → ∞; or the Poincaré group to the Galilei group, as the speed of light diverges:...
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the same class. Fixed points of isometry groups in Euclidean space Euclidean plane isometry Poincaré group Coordinate rotations and reflections Reflection...
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is described in special relativity by a group of transformations of the spacetime known as the Poincaré group. Another important example is the invariance...
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mathematics, the κ-Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré, is a quantum group, obtained by deformation of the Poincaré group into a Hopf algebra...
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after Henri Poincaré: Euler–Poincaré characteristic Hilbert–Poincaré series Poincaré–Bendixson theorem Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt...
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the same manner as special relativity. The Lorentz group is a subgroup of the Poincaré group—the group of all isometries of Minkowski spacetime. Lorentz...
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Supergroup (physics) (redirect from Orthosymplectic group)
extend the Poincaré group or the conformal group. Of particular interest are the orthosymplectic groups Osp(M|N) and the superunitary groups SU(M|N). An...
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of transformations that also includes translations is known as the Poincaré group. Many physicists—including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, Joseph...
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group generated by the orthogonal reflections. The Poincaré group is the affine group of the Lorentz group O(1,3): R 1 , 3 ⋊ O ( 1 , 3 ) {\displaystyle...
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mathematics, the name symplectic group can refer to two different, but closely related, collections of mathematical groups, denoted Sp(2n, F) and Sp(n) for...
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mathematics, the Poincaré duality theorem, named after Henri Poincaré, is a basic result on the structure of the homology and cohomology groups of manifolds...
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Lorentz covariance (redirect from Poincaré covariant)
point. There is a generalization of this concept to cover Poincaré covariance and Poincaré invariance. In general, the (transformational) nature of a...
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The BMS group also has a similar structure as the Poincaré group: just as the Poincaré group is a semidirect product between the Lorentz group and the...
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Examples of the use of groups in physics include the Standard Model, gauge theory, the Lorentz group, and the Poincaré group. Group theory can be used to...
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κ-Poincaré or kappa-Poincaré, so named after Henri Poincaré, may refer to: K-Poincaré algebra, Kappa-Poincaré Hopf algebra K-Poincaré group, the Kappa-Poincaré...
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{A}}(O_{2})]=0} . Poincaré covariance: A strongly continuous unitary representation U ( P ) {\displaystyle U({\mathcal {P}})} of the Poincaré group P {\displaystyle...
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excitation of a field A particle is an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group A particle is an observed thing Subatomic particles are either "elementary"...
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with 1 ≤ p ≤ n. The lemma was introduced by Henri Poincaré in 1886. Especially in calculus, the Poincaré lemma also says that every closed 1-form on a simply...
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