Conjugacy classes of involutions in the Lorentz group Ω(V) and in SO(V)

Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Volumn 383, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 77-83

  Ellers, Erich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bireflectional; Commutator subgroup; Conjugate; Involution; Lorentz group; Special linear group

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

COMMUTATOR SUBGROUPS; CONJUGATES; INVOLUTION; SPECIAL LINEAR GROUP;

LINEAR ALGEBRA;

EID: 1942485251     PISSN: 00243795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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