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One easy way for physicists to understand group theory is in terms of coordinate transformations. Indeed, as we did in Chapter III, the study of the Lorentz group naturally starts with the group of coordinate transformation matrices operating on four-component Minkowskian vectors. The question then is whether those four-by-four matrices are the smallest matrices having the algebraic properties of the proper Lorentz group (Cartan, 1966). The answer to this question is “No”.
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Kim, Y.S., Noz, M.E. (1986). Theory of Spinors. In: Theory and Applications of the Poincaré Group. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4558-6_4
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