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Poincaré group

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Summary

The semidirect product of spacetime translations with the Lorentz group.

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Canonically induces

Notes

The connected, universal-cover, and full disconnected versions must be distinguished in representation theory.

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Lorentz groupPoincaré group

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Authored explanation

For a fixed Minkowski vector space, the Poincaré group is the semidirect product of spacetime translations with the Lorentz group.

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Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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Poincaré groupPoincaré symmetry

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Authored explanation

Poincaré symmetry is mathematically represented by the Poincaré group.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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Poincaré groupQuantum field theory

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Relativistic QFT in Minkowski spacetime carries a unitary Poincaré action.

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A mathematical concept supplies part of the formal language, state space, representation, or analytic machinery used by a scientific or mathematical-physics concept. The source is the mathematical predecessor; this does not claim that physical content follows from mathematics alone.

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