Consequences of the noncompactness of the Lorentz group

Details Consequences of the noncompactness of the Lorentz group Consequences of the noncompactness of the Lorentz group

1995-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9512007v1

Int.J.Theor.Phys. 37 (1998) 691-696

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

7 pages, latex, no figures

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The following four statements have been proven decades ago already, but they continue to induce a strange feeling: - All curvature invariants of a gravitational wave vanish - in spite of the fact that it represents a nonflat spacetime. - The eigennullframe components of the curvature tensor (the Cartan ''scalars'') do not represent curvature scalars. - The Euclidean topology in the Minkowski spacetime does not possess a basis composed of Lorentz--invariant neighbourhoods. - There are points in the de Sitter spacetime which cannot be joined to each other by any geodesic. We explain that our feeling is influenced by the compactness of the rotation group; the strangeness disappears if we fully acknowledge the noncompactness of the Lorentz group. Output: Imaginary coordinate rotations from Euclidean to Lorentzian signature are very dangerous.

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