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arxiv: gr-qc/0106052 · v1 · pith:SDT2DSESnew · submitted 2001-06-15 · 🌀 gr-qc

Composition of Lorentz Transformations in Terms of Their Generators

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keywords generatorslorentztransformationscompositionformulasubalgebratermstwo-forms
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Two-forms in Minkowski space-time may be considered as generators of Lorentz transformations. Here, the covariant and general expression for the composition law (Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula) of two Lorentz transformations in terms of their generators is obtained. Every subalgebra of the Lorentz algebra of such generators, up to one, may be generated by a sole pair of generators. When the subalgebra is known, the above BCH formula for the two two-forms simplifies. Its simplified expressions for all such subalgebras are also given.

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