Symmetries Shared by the Poincaré Group and the Poincaré Sphere
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Symmetries Shared by the Poincaré Group and the Poincaré Sphere
Henri Poincaré formulated the mathematics of Lorentz transformations, known as the Poincaré group. He also formulated the Poincaré sphere for polarization optics. It is shown that these two mathematical instruments can be derived from the two-by-two representations of the Lorentz group. Wigner’s little groups for internal space-time symmetries are studied in detail. While the particle mass is a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Symmetry
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym5030233