Affine structure and isotropy imply Minkowski space‐time and the orthochronous Poincaré group

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Schutz
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Poincaré Group ◽  
Affine Structure ◽  
Poincare Group ◽  
Minkowski Space Time

scholarly journals On the structure and applications of the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1830002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Alessio ◽  
Giampiero Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Isometry Group ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Flat Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Poincaré Group ◽  
Poincare Group ◽  
Curved Space ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Minkowski Space Time

This work is a pedagogical review dedicated to a modern description of the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs (BMS) group. Minkowski space-time has an interesting and useful group of isometries, but, for a generic space-time, the isometry group is simply the identity and hence provides no significant informations. Yet symmetry groups have important role to play in physics; in particular, the Poincaré group describing the isometries of Minkowski space-time plays a role in the standard definitions of energy-momentum and angular-momentum. For this reason alone it would seem to be important to look for a generalization of the concept of isometry group that can apply in a useful way to suitable curved space-times. The curved space-times that will be taken into account are the ones that suitably approach, at infinity, Minkowski space-time. In particular we will focus on asymptotically flat space-times. In this work, the concept of asymptotic symmetry group of those space-times will be studied. In the first two sections we derive the asymptotic group following the classical approach which was basically developed by Bondi, van den Burg, Metzner and Sachs. This is essentially the group of transformations between coordinate systems of a certain type in asymptotically flat space-times. In the third section the conformal method and the notion of “asymptotic simplicity” are introduced, following mainly the works of Penrose. This section prepares us for another derivation of the BMS group which will involve the conformal structure, and is thus more geometrical and fundamental. In the subsequent sections we discuss the properties of the BMS group, e.g. its algebra and the possibility to obtain as its subgroup the Poincaré group, as we may expect. The paper ends with a review of the BMS invariance properties of classical gravitational scattering discovered by Strominger, that are finding application to black hole physics and quantum gravity in the literature.

scholarly journals The isotropy mappings of Minkowski space-time generate the orthochronous poincaré group

1990 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-433
Author(s):  
John W. Schutz
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Coordinate Frame ◽  
Poincaré Group ◽  
Position Space ◽  
Poincare Group ◽  
Coordinate Frames ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Lorentz Boosts ◽  
Single Coordinate

AbstractMinkowski space-time is specified with respect to a single coordinate frame by the set of timelike lines. Isotropy mappings are defined as automorphisms which leave the events of one timelike line invariant. We demonstrate the existence of two special types of isotropy mappings. The first type of isotropy mapping induce orthogonal transformations in position space. Mappings of the second type can be composed to generate Lorentz boosts. It is shown that isotropy mappings generate the orthochronous Poincaré group of motions. The set of isotropy mappings then maps the single assumed coordinate frame onto a set of coordinate frames related by transformations of the orthochronous Poincaré group.

On generalized partially null Mannheim curves in Minkowski space-time

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilija Nešović ◽  
Milica Grbović
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Minkowski Space Time

scholarly journals EXTENSION OF THE POINCARÉ GROUP AND NON-ABELIAN TENSOR GAUGE FIELDS

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (31) ◽  
pp. 5765-5785 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE SAVVIDY
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Group ◽  
Gauge Transformation ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Gauge Fields ◽  
Poincaré Group ◽  
Matrix Representations ◽  
Poincare Group ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Transversal Plane

In the recently proposed generalization of the Yang–Mills theory, the group of gauge transformation gets essentially enlarged. This enlargement involves a mixture of the internal and space–time symmetries. The resulting group is an extension of the Poincaré group with infinitely many generators which carry internal and space–time indices. The matrix representations of the extended Poincaré generators are expressible in terms of Pauli–Lubanski vector in one case and in terms of its invariant derivative in another. In the later case the generators of the gauge group are transversal to the momentum and are projecting the non-Abelian tensor gauge fields into the transversal plane, keeping only their positively definite spacelike components.

scholarly journals A MAXWELL-LIKE FORMULATION OF GRAVITATIONAL THEORY IN MINKOWSKI SPACE–TIME

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 1027-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDUARDO A. NOTTE-CUELLO ◽  
WALDYR A. RODRIGUES
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Gravitational Theory ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Lorentzian Geometry ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Clifford Bundle ◽  
Gauge Fixing

Using the Clifford bundle formalism, a Lagrangian theory of the Yang–Mills type (with a gauge fixing term and an auto interacting term) for the gravitational field in Minkowski space–time is presented. It is shown how two simple hypotheses permit the interpretation of the formalism in terms of effective Lorentzian or teleparallel geometries. In the case of a Lorentzian geometry interpretation of the theory, the field equations are shown to be equivalent to Einstein's equations.

scholarly journals CHARGED PARTICLES AND THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD IN NONINERTIAL FRAMES OF MINKOWSKI SPACE–TIME II: "APPLICATIONS: ROTATING FRAMES, SAGNAC EFFECT, FARADAY ROTATION, WRAP-UP EFFECT"

2010 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 185-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID ALBA ◽  
LUCA LUSANNA
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Faraday Rotation ◽  
Rotating Disk ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Sagnac Effect ◽  
Electro Magnetic Field ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Relativistic Extension ◽  
Rotating Frames ◽  
Electro Magnetic

We apply the theory of noninertial frames in Minkowski space–time, developed in the previous paper, to various relevant physical systems. We give the 3 + 1 description without coordinate singularities of the rotating disk and the Sagnac effect, with added comments on pulsar magnetosphere and on a relativistic extension of the Earth-fixed coordinate system. Then we study properties of Maxwell equations in noninertial frames like the wrap-up effect and the Faraday rotation in astrophysics.

scholarly journals Nature itself in a mirror space–time

2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (10) ◽  
pp. 1005-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasulkhozha S. Sharafiddinov
Keyword(s):  
Dirac Equation ◽  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Classical Solutions ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Energy And Momentum ◽  
The Right ◽  
Structure Of Matter

The unity of the structure of matter fields with flavor symmetry laws involves that the left-handed neutrino in the field of emission can be converted into a right-handed one and vice versa. These transitions together with classical solutions of the Dirac equation testify in favor of the unidenticality of masses, energies, and momenta of neutrinos of the different components. If we recognize such a difference in masses, energies, and momenta, accepting its ideas about that the left-handed neutrino and the right-handed antineutrino refer to long-lived leptons, and the right-handed neutrino and the left-handed antineutrino are short-lived fermions, we would follow the mathematical logic of the Dirac equation in the presence of the flavor symmetrical mass, energy, and momentum matrices. From their point of view, nature itself separates Minkowski space into left and right spaces concerning a certain middle dynamical line. Thereby, it characterizes any Dirac particle both by left and by right space–time coordinates. It is not excluded therefore that whatever the main purposes each of earlier experiments about sterile neutrinos, namely, about right-handed short-lived neutrinos may serve as the source of facts confirming the existence of a mirror Minkowski space–time.

scholarly journals Generalized Timelike Mannheim Curves in Minkowski Space-Time

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Akyig~it ◽  
S. Ersoy ◽  
İ. Özgür ◽  
M. Tosun
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Mannheim Curve ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

We give the definition of generalized timelike Mannheim curve in Minkowski space-time . The necessary and sufficient conditions for the generalized timelike Mannheim curve are obtained. We show some characterizations of generalized Mannheim curve.

scholarly journals Hermitian realizations of κ-Minkowski space–time

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (03) ◽  
pp. 1550019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domagoj Kovačević ◽  
Stjepan Meljanac ◽  
Andjelo Samsarov ◽  
Zoran Škoda
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Star Product ◽  
Plane Waves ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Star Products ◽  
Systematic Construction ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Noncommutative Plane

General realizations, star products and plane waves for κ-Minkowski space–time are considered. Systematic construction of general Hermitian realization is presented, with special emphasis on noncommutative plane waves and Hermitian star product. Few examples are elaborated and possible physical applications are mentioned.

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