Mathematics – Group Theory
Scientific paper
Jul 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998gregr..30.1099h&link_type=abstract
General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 30, Issue 7, pp.1099-1110
Mathematics
Group Theory
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Symmetries, Transformations, Projective, Conformal, Affine
Scientific paper
The motivation for this paper is the recent interest in the study of symme tries in general relativity and its purpose is to discuss the mathematical foundations required for such a study. The general (formal and informal) ideas of what constitutes a symmetry of space-time are discussed and developed and the idea of a Lie algebra of symmetry vector fields is studied in detail. The relationship between such Lie algebras and the ideas of Lie transformation group theory (Palais' theorems) is stated and a general theorem regarding the orbits of such symmetries is given. Finally some specific symmetries in general relativity are explored and some of their similarities and differences noted.
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