Summary: Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Honours Seminar
Speaker: Chris Ramsey
Title: The Lorentz group of a real or complex C -algebra
Date: March 7, 2007
Time: 3.30 pm
Location: College West 307.20
Abstract: Suppose that A is a real or complex C -algebra. The unitary group of A is the
subgroup U.A/ of GL.A/ of all invertible u 2 A for which u u D 1. The Lorentz group
of A is the subgroup L.A/ of GL.M2.A// of all invertible
g D
Ä
w x
y z
2 M2.A/
for which g hg D h, where h D
Ä
1 0
0 1
.

Source: Argerami, Martin - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina

Collections: Mathematics