Spacetime symmetries are features of spacetime that can be described as exhibiting some form of symmetry. The role of symmetry in physics is important...
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important subclass of continuous symmetries in physics are spacetime symmetries. Continuous spacetime symmetries are symmetries involving transformations of...
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Field (physics) (section Spacetime symmetries)
may have internal symmetries in addition to spacetime symmetries. In many situations, one needs fields which are a list of spacetime scalars: (φ1, φ2,...
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breaking of internal symmetries, when spacetime symmetries such as Lorentz, conformal, rotational, or translational symmetries are broken, the order...
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Coleman–Mandula theorem (section Conformal symmetry)
stating that spacetime and internal symmetries can only combine in a trivial way. This means that the charges associated with internal symmetries must always...
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expectation for asymptotically flat spacetime symmetries might be simply to extend and reproduce the symmetries of flat spacetime of special relativity, viz....
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induced symmetries. Similarly, if there are symmetries of the space (or time) domain in which the random variables exist (also called spacetime symmetries),...
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expectation for asymptotically flat spacetime symmetries might be simply to extend and reproduce the symmetries of flat spacetime of special relativity, viz....
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Poincaré group (redirect from Poincaré symmetry)
The last two symmetries, J and K, together make the Lorentz group (see also Lorentz invariance); the semi-direct product of the spacetime translations...
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symmetries in physics include continuous symmetries and discrete symmetries of spacetime; internal symmetries of particles; and supersymmetry of physical...
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Symmetries in quantum mechanics describe features of spacetime and particles which are unchanged under some transformation, in the context of quantum mechanics...
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may have certain symmetries, though their solutions may not (the symmetries are "hidden"). One of the first cases of broken symmetry discussed in the...
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Taub–NUT spacetime Kasner spacetime Mixmaster spacetime Non-relativistic spacetime Spacetime symmetries Quantum spacetime Mueller, Thomas; Grave, Frank...
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There are many symmetries in nature besides time translation, such as spatial translation or rotational symmetries. These symmetries can be broken and...
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Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group (category Symmetry)
reader, the naive expectation for asymptotically flat spacetime symmetries, i.e., symmetries of spacetime seen by observers located far away from all sources...
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Gauge theory (redirect from Gauge symmetry)
model that has symmetries of this kind, together with a set of techniques for making physical predictions consistent with the symmetries of the model....
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Quantum number (section Connection to symmetry)
to spacetime symmetries are spin (related to rotational symmetry), the parity, C-parity and T-parity (related to the Poincaré symmetry of spacetime). Typical...
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in the study of spacetime symmetries where tensors or other geometrical objects are preserved. In particular, Killing symmetry (symmetry of the metric tensor...
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Supersymmetry (redirect from Super symmetry)
the more familiar symmetries of quantum field theory. These symmetries are grouped into the Poincaré group and internal symmetries and the Coleman–Mandula...
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Conformal group (redirect from Conformal group of spacetime)
of local symmetries is infinite dimensional, these do not necessarily extend to a Lie group of well-defined global symmetries. For spacetime dimension...
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generators are considered, then the only way to nontrivially mix spacetime and internal symmetries is through supersymmetry. The anticommutating generators must...
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{L}}_{X}g_{ab})_{;c}=0} Conformal vector field Curvature collineation Homothetic vector field Killing vector field Matter collineation Spacetime symmetries v t e v t e...
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Killing vector field (redirect from Killing symmetry)
_{a}(U^{b}X_{b})=0} This aids in analytically studying motions in a spacetime with symmetries. Given a conserved, symmetric tensor T a b {\displaystyle T^{ab}}...
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material with various equations of state.) Static spacetime Stationary spacetime Spacetime symmetries De Sitter space Andrew J. S. Hamilton and Pedro P...
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experimental tests of spacetime symmetries as well as investigating ways elementary particles and their interactions could emerge from spacetime geometry. Between...
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interpreted as a quantum spacetime, but the following desiderata have been suggested: Local Lorentz group and Poincaré group symmetries should be retained,...
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Lorentz transformation (category Spacetime)
PTΛ is proper antichronous. Two other spacetime symmetries have not been accounted for. In order for the spacetime interval to be invariant, it can be shown...
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and conservation laws for rotational and boost symmetries, or to describe spinors in curved spacetime geometries. The result of adding this infrastructure...
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philosophy from Rutgers in 2008. Her doctoral thesis was titled Spacetime Symmetries and the CPT Theorem and was supervised by Frank Arntzenius. She has...
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important discrete symmetries are P-symmetry (parity) and T-symmetry (time reversal). These discrete symmetries, C, P and T, are symmetries of the equations...
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