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Generators for Lorentz transformations
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Feb28-12, 02:50 PM
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Ben Niehoff
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Your set of transformations covers everything. However, they are not the "generators". The generators of a Lie group are the elements of the Lie algebra. The boosts and rotations you gave are exponentials of Lie algebra elements, so you're close.