The Lorentz Group and the Sphere
- 1 November 1970
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 11 (11) , 3145-3154
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1665105
Abstract
A direct connection between the spin and conformally weighted functions on the sphere and geometric objects in Minkowski space is established through the isomorphism of the conformal group of the sphere to the restricted Lorentz group. It is shown that with the use of these functions one can duplicate all the standard work on the representations of the Lorentz group. It is shown further that these functions can be used to obtain a generalization of the classical equations of motion in which internal degrees of freedom arise naturally.Keywords
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