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emob2p
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Hi,
Today in QFT class, we examined an infinitesimal Lorentz transformation. From this we showed that a LT is represented by an anti-symmetric matrix. But this means that the diagonal elements should all be zeros. My question is how this reduces to the standard LT with gamma, gamma, one, one running along the diagonal and +/- v*gamma in the 12, 21 elements. Where is my thinking confused? Thanks.
Today in QFT class, we examined an infinitesimal Lorentz transformation. From this we showed that a LT is represented by an anti-symmetric matrix. But this means that the diagonal elements should all be zeros. My question is how this reduces to the standard LT with gamma, gamma, one, one running along the diagonal and +/- v*gamma in the 12, 21 elements. Where is my thinking confused? Thanks.