Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8897993 | Linear Algebra and its Applications | 2018 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
As is well known, for every orthogonal transformation of the Euclidean space there exists an orthogonal basis such that the matrix of the transformation is block-diagonal with first order blocks ±1 and second order blocks that are rotations of the Euclidean plane. There exists a natural generalization of this theorem for Lorentz transformations of pseudo-Euclidean spaces with signature (1,nâ1). In addition to invariant subspaces appearing in the Euclidean case, Lorentz transformations can have invariant subspaces of two new types: invariant plane with the Lorenz rotation and 3-dimensional cyclic subspace with isotropic eigenvector and eigenvalue ±1. In this paper, we present similar results about the structure of isomorphisms of pseudo-Euclidean spaces with signature (p,nâp) for p=2,3.
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Authors
N.G. Pavlova, A.O. Remizov,