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arxiv: 1604.05698 · v1 · pith:Y7YMGMWXnew · submitted 2016-04-19 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

Cromlech, menhirs and celestial sphere: an unusual representation of the Lorentz group

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We present a novel representation of the Lorentz group, the geometric version of which uses "reversions" of a sphere while the algebraic version uses pseudounitary 2x2 matrices over complex numbers and quaternions, and Clifford algebras in general. A remarkably simple formula for relativistic composition of velocities and an accompanying geometric construction follows. The method is derived from the diffeomorphisms of the celestial sphere induced by Lorentz boost.

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