Poincaré group
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The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré, was first defined by Hermann Minkowski as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian Lie group that is of importance
Henri Poincaré
Lorentz group
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In physics and mathematics, the Lorentz group is the group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical and quantum setting for all physical phenomena. The Lorentz group is nam
Poincaré group
…boosts, transformations connecting two uniformly moving bodies (K). The last two symmetries, J and K, together make the Lorentz group (see also Lorentz invariance); the semi-direct product of the spacetime translations group and the Lorentz group then produce the Poincaré group. Objects…
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928), after whom the Lorentz group is named.