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The Lorentz group and the Kronecker product of matrices
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. (UMIT)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7838-1307
2022 (English)In: European journal of physics, ISSN 0143-0807, E-ISSN 1361-6404, Vol. 43, no 2, article id 025603Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The group SL(2,C)(2,C) of all complex 2 × 2 matrices with determinant one is closely related to the group L+↑ of real 4 × 4 matrices representing the restricted Lorentz transformations. This relation, sometimes called the spinor map, is of fundamental importance in relativistic quantum mechanics and has applications also in general relativity. In this paper we show how the spinor map may be expressed in terms of pure matrix algebra by including the Kronecker product between matrices in the formalism. The so-obtained formula for the spinor map may be manipulated by matrix algebra and used in the study of Lorentz transformations.

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Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2022. Vol. 43, no 2, article id 025603
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-192572DOI: 10.1088/1361-6404/ac4c88ISI: 000756011400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85125752509OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-192572DiVA, id: diva2:1638571
Available from: 2022-02-17 Created: 2022-02-17 Last updated: 2022-03-18Bibliographically approved

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