SL(3,R) realisations and the damped harmonic oscillator

Abstract
The point and contact Lie groups for the damped harmonic oscillator are found and several realisations of the SL(3,R) Lie group are analysed. The non-critical and critical cases are studied separately and a sort of limiting procedure is defined, which leaves the Lie algebra structure unchanged. Some physical applications of these results are also pointed out.

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