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Infinitesimal Lorentz Transformations and the States of Polarization of Free Photons
- John Argyris,
- Corneliu Ciubotariu,
- Ioannis Andreadis
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Abstract
Applying the tangent dynamics technique as generated by infinitesimal Lorentz transformations, it is shown that the components of an electromagnetic field correspond to the Lie-Cartan parameters of the group SO(3,1). Thus the maximum number of non-null components of the magnetic field (i.e., the number of the states of polarization) is not decided by the number of group generators.
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- Title
- Infinitesimal Lorentz Transformations and the States of Polarization of Free Photons
- Journal
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Journal of Genetic Counseling
Volume 11, Issue 3 , pp 277-285
- Cover Date
- 1998-06-01
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1022497710362
- Print ISSN
- 0894-9875
- Online ISSN
- 1572-9524
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
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- Lie-Cartan parameters
- electromagnetic field
- states of polarizations
- Authors
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- John Argyris (1)
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Corneliu Ciubotariu
(1)
- Ioannis Andreadis (1)
- Author Affiliations
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- 1. Institute for Computer Applications (ICA 1), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 27, D-70569, Stuttgart, Germany