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  • 1985-1989  (2)
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    Decomposition of Lorentz transformations (1987)
    College Park, Md. : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Journal of Mathematical Physics 28 (1987), S. 2373-2378 
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    ISSN: 1089-7658
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Mathematics , Physics
    Notes: It is shown that every Lorentz transformation can be decomposed into a helicity-preserving transformation that changes the momentum of a free particle and a helicity-changing transformation that leaves the momentum invariant. Since momentum-preserving transformations constitute a subgroup of the Lorentz group, helicity-preserving transformations form a coset space. It is shown further that, for massive particles, every Lorentz transformation can be decomposed into the Wigner rotation and helicity-preserving transformations. For massless particles, every Lorentz transformation can be decomposed into the gauge transformation and helicity-preserving transformation. The gauge transformation in this case is a Lorentz-boosted Wigner rotation.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.527773
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    Eulerian parametrization of Wigner's little groups and gauge transformations in terms of rotations in two-component spinors (1986)
    College Park, Md. : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Journal of Mathematical Physics 27 (1986), S. 2228-2235 
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    ISSN: 1089-7658
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Mathematics , Physics
    Notes: A set of rotations and Lorentz boosts is presented for studying the three-parameter little groups of the Poincaré group. This set constitutes a Lorentz generalization of the Euler angles for the description of classical rigid bodies. The concept of Lorentz-generalized Euler rotations is then extended to the parametrization of the E(2)-like little group and the O(2,1)-like little group for massless and imaginary-mass particles, respectively. It is shown that the E(2)-like little group for massless particles is a limiting case of the O(3)-like or O(2,1)-like little group. A detailed analysis is carried out for the two-component SL(2,c) spinors. It is shown that the gauge degrees of freedom associated with the translationlike transformation of the E(2)-like little group can be traced to the SL(2,c) spins that fail to align themselves to their respective momenta in the limit of large momentum and/or vanishing mass.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.526994
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