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    In physics and mathematics, the Lorentz group is the group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical and quantum setting for...
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    together make the Lorentz group (see also Lorentz invariance); the semi-direct product of the spacetime translations group and the Lorentz group then produce...
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    In physics, the Lorentz transformations are a six-parameter family of linear transformations from a coordinate frame in spacetime to another frame that...
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  • In relativistic physics, Lorentz symmetry or Lorentz invariance, named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz, is an equivalence of observation or...
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    The Lorentz group is a Lie group of symmetries of the spacetime of special relativity. This group can be realized as a collection of matrices, linear...
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  • connected to the Lorentz transformation of special relativity, and it turns out that the conformal group of spacetime includes the Lorentz group and the Poincaré...
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    group up to dimension 8". Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré A. 40 (1): 35–57. Wigner's classification Representation theory of the Lorentz group Representation...
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    Irreducible representation (category Group theory)
    of Lorentz Group" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-23. Retrieved 2013-07-07. Maciejko, Joseph (2007). "Representations of Lorentz and...
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    and group theory. This article provides a few of the easier ones to follow in the context of special relativity, for the simplest case of a Lorentz boost...
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    Hendrik Antoon Lorentz ForMemRS (/ˈlɒrənts/; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter...
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  • spectrometer. The search was unsuccessful with an upper limit of 5×10−6. The Lorentz group has no non-trivial unitary representations of finite dimension. Thus...
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  • of Lorentz transformations comprises the development of linear transformations forming the Lorentz group or Poincaré group preserving the Lorentz interval...
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    Poincaré group is the affine group associated to the Lorentz group, O(1, 3, F) ⋉ Fn. The general semilinear group ΓL(n, F) is the group of all invertible semilinear...
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    mechanics. The Lorentz group is a 6-dimensional Lie group of linear isometries of the Minkowski space. The Poincaré group is a 10-dimensional Lie group of affine...
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    equations is Lorentz group theory, wherein the spin of the particle has a correspondence with the representations of the Lorentz group. The failure of...
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  • transform in a certain "spinorial" fashion under the action of the Lorentz group, which describes the symmetries of Minkowski spacetime. They occur in...
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  • of the Lorentz group acts on the celestial sphere in the same way that the Möbius group acts on the Riemann sphere. In fact, these two groups are isomorphic...
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    Symmetry in quantum mechanics (category Group theory)
    operators, and relates them to the Lie groups, and relativistic transformations in the Lorentz group and Poincaré group. The notational conventions used in...
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  • hyperbolic rotations, just as the group SO(2) can be interpreted as circular rotations. In physics, the Lorentz group O(1,3) is of central importance,...
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  • specifically, a bispinor that transforms "spinorially" under the action of the Lorentz group. Dirac spinors are important and interesting in numerous ways. Foremost...
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    matrices inside the Dirac algebra. The Lorentz group may be represented by 4×4 matrices Λ. The action of a Lorentz transformation on a general contravariant...
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    own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction or Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction (after Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald) and is...
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  • quasi-sphere of the biquaternions provides a representation of the Lorentz group, which is the foundation of special relativity. The algebra of biquaternions...
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    Spacetime (redirect from Lorentz interval)
    instance, the Lorentz group is a subgroup of the conformal group in four dimensions.: 41–42  The Lorentz group is isomorphic to the Laguerre group transforming...
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    representations of the Lorentz algebra as representations of the Lorentz group, even if they do not arise as representations of the Lorentz group. The representation...
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    of the Lorentz group, which are defined as, where Mμν are constant (2j1+1)(2j2+1) × (2j1+1)(2j2+1) matrices defining the elements of the Lorentz algebra...
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  • physics, Lorentz invariance states that the laws of physics should remain unchanged under Lorentz transformation. In quantum gravity, Lorentz invariance...
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    {C} )} is related to the Lorentz transform by means of the double covering of the Lorentz group by the special linear group S L ( 2 , C ) {\displaystyle...
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    set of all Lorentz transformations form a group called the Lorentz group (this may be generalised to the Poincaré group). Discrete groups describe discrete...
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  • relativity, viz., the Poincaré group, also called the inhomogeneous Lorentz group, which is a ten-dimensional group of three Lorentz boosts, three rotations...
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