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Proper Lorentz transformations from group theory?
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[QUOTE="vanhees71, post: 6496621, member: 260864"] The group structure comes from the demand that transformations between different inertial reference frames should be invertible. The transformation from a frame to itself, i.e., doing in fact nothing, for sure is a symmetry and doing two transformations is also just a transformation from one inertial reference frame to another one. The transformations should be linear because it should map any uniform motion of any point particle in one frame to such a motion in any other. To get Minkowski space and the Poincare transformations you have to assume in addition also that any inertial observer describes his space as Euclidean. [/QUOTE]
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