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On the Structure of the Schild Group in Relativity Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gerd Jensen
Affiliation:
Sensburger Allee 22 a, D–14055 Berlin e-mail: [email protected]
Christian Pommerenke
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität, D–10623 Berlin e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Alfred Schild has established conditions that Lorentz transformationsmap world-vectors $(ct,x,y,z)$ with integer coordinates onto vectors of the same kind. These transformations are called integral Lorentz transformations.

This paper contains supplements to our earlier work with a new focus on group theory. To relate the results to the familiar matrix group nomenclature, we associate Lorentz transformations with matrices in $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$. We consider the lattice of subgroups of the group originated in Schild's paper and obtain generating sets for the full group and its subgroups.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2017

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