Cayley formula in Minkowski space-time


Erdogdu M., ÖZDEMİR M.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMETRIC METHODS IN MODERN PHYSICS, vol.12, no.5, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Abstract

In this paper, Cayley formula is derived for 4 x 4 semi-skew-symmetric real matrices in E-1(4). For this purpose, we use the decomposition of a semi-skew-symmetric matrix A = theta(1)A(1) + theta(2)A(2) by two unique semi-skew-symmetric matrices A(1) and A(2) satisfying the properties A(1)A(2) = 0, A(1)(3) = A(1) and A(2)(3) = -A(2). Then, we find Lorentzian rotation matrices with semi-skew-symmetric matrices by Cayley formula. Furthermore, we give a way to find the semi-skew-symmetric matrix A for a given Lorentzian rotation matrix R such that R = Cay(A).