What is Lorentz group: Definition and 69 Discussions
In physics and mathematics, the Lorentz group is the group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical and quantum setting for all (non-gravitational) physical phenomena. The Lorentz group is named for the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz.
For example, the following laws, equations, and theories respect Lorentz symmetry:
The kinematical laws of special relativity
Maxwell's field equations in the theory of electromagnetism
The Dirac equation in the theory of the electron
The Standard Model of particle physicsThe Lorentz group expresses the fundamental symmetry of space and time of all known fundamental laws of nature. In general relativity physics, in cases involving small enough regions of spacetime where gravitational variances are negligible, physical laws are Lorentz invariant in the same manner as that of special relativity physics.
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In Weinberg's book "The quantum theory of fields", chapter2, it states that the transformation
of a massive particle is
U(\Lambda)\Psi_{p,\sigma}=
N\sum\mathcal{D}^{(j)}_{\sigma',\sigma}(W)\Psi_{\Lambda p,\sigma'}
where W is an element in the little-group SO(3). But than it states that...
The words Poincare and Lorentz sound pretty elegant. I think they are French words like Loreal Or Laurent.
I know Poincare has to do with spacetime translation and Lorentz with rotations symmetry. But how come one commonly heard about Lorentz symmetry in Special Relativity and General...
From Peskin and Schroeder:
The finite-dimentional representations of the rotation group correspond precisely to the allowed values for the angular momentum: integers or half integers.
From the Lorentz commutation relations:
\left[J^{\mu \nu},J^{\rho \sigma}\right]=i \left(g^{\nu \rho}J^{\mu...
Hello, I'm studying the Lorentz group and their properties... and I have some question for them..
Peskin's text(p496) said that
"we are primarily interested in Lie algebras that have finite-dimensional Hermitian representations, leading to finite-dimensional unitary representations of the...
This is something I feel I should know by now, but I've always been very confused about. Specifically, how does one determine what each representation of the Lorentz group corresponds to? I mean, I know that the (1/2,0) and the (0,1/2) representations correspond to right and left handed spinors...
we all know the lorentz group is of four disconnected components
about the component connected to the unit element,
is it coverable with single-parameter subgroups?
put it in another way
are all the elements in this component of the form exp(A)?
i am studying relativistic quantum...
I'm reading the wiki article on Representation theory of the Lorentz group
and they seem to make a distinction between these two reps:
(1/2,1/2) and
(1/2,0) + (0,1/2)
I did some checks and it seems that these two are the same. Am I wrong
or is the wiki article wrong (won't be the...
I'm very confused
By performing a lorentz transformation on a spinor \psi\rightarrow S(\Lambda)\psi(\Lambda x) and imposing covariance on the Dirac equation i\gamma^{\mu}\partial_{\mu}\psi=0 we deduce that the gamma matrices transform as
S(\Lambda)\gamma^{\mu}...
This is probably very trivial, but I can't find an argument, why the orthochronal transformations (i.e. those for which \Lambda^0{}_0 \geq 1) form a subgroup of the Lorentz group, i.e. why the product of two orthochronal transformations is again orthochronal?
Since when you multiply two...
Homework Statement
Verify that (2.16) follows from (2.14). Here \Lambda is a Lorentz transformation matrix, U is a unitary operator, M is a generator of the Lorentz group.
Homework Equations
2.8: \delta\omega_{\rho\sigma}=-\delta\omega_{\sigma\rho}
M^{\mu\nu}=-M^{\nu\mu}
2.14...
Homework Statement
i) Show that the Lorentz group has representations on any space \mathbb{R}^d
for
any d = 4n with n = 0, 1, 2, . . .. Show that those with n > 1 are not
irreducible. (Hint: here it might be useful to work with tensors in index
notation and to think of symmetry...
I'm very very very confused and extremely thick.
If \Lambda_i is some element of the Lorentz group and \Lambda_j is another, different element of the group then under multiplication...
\Lambda_i \Lambda_j is also an element of the Lorentz group, say
\Lambda_i \Lambda_j...
I read that the generator of the O(3) group is the angular momentum L and that the generator of the SU(2) group is spin S.
Nevertheless I have some questions.
1. In some books they say that the generator of the SO(3) group is angular momentum L.
SO(3) is the group of proper rotations...
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He talks about...
Hello everyone,
In wikipedia when searching Lorentz representations, there is given that (1/2,0)*(0,1/2) corresponds to Dirac spinor representation and (1/2,1/2) is vector representation, but in P.Ramond's book "Field Theory - A Modern Primer" I read (1/2,0)*(0,1/2)=(1/2,1/2), obviously I...
Is Lorentz group correct?, my question is let's be a group A so the Lorentz Groups is a subgroups of it so A>L (L=Lorentz group , G= Galilean group) of course if we had an element tending to 0 so:
A(\hbar)\rightarrow L (Group contraction)
so for small h the groups A and L are the same and...