Spacetime symmetries are features of spacetime that can be described as exhibiting some form of symmetry. The role of symmetry in physics is important... 11 KB (1,487 words) - 19:22, 30 March 2024 |
Field (physics) (section Spacetime symmetries) may have internal symmetries in addition to spacetime symmetries. In many situations, one needs fields which are a list of spacetime scalars: (φ1, φ2,... 33 KB (3,976 words) - 00:50, 11 April 2024 |
breaking of internal symmetries, when spacetime symmetries such as Lorentz, conformal, rotational, or translational symmetries are broken, the order... 26 KB (3,697 words) - 00:33, 24 April 2024 |
General relativity (redirect from Warping spacetime) expectation for asymptotically flat spacetime symmetries might be simply to extend and reproduce the symmetries of flat spacetime of special relativity, viz.... 194 KB (22,670 words) - 16:21, 19 April 2024 |
Coleman–Mandula theorem (section Conformal symmetry) stating that spacetime and internal symmetries can only combine in a trivial way. This means that the charges associated with internal symmetries must always... 13 KB (1,501 words) - 02:36, 30 January 2024 |
may have certain symmetries, though their solutions may not (the symmetries are "hidden"). One of the first cases of broken symmetry discussed in the... 14 KB (1,703 words) - 09:02, 27 February 2024 |
symmetries in physics include continuous symmetries and discrete symmetries of spacetime; internal symmetries of particles; and supersymmetry of physical... 36 KB (3,883 words) - 13:52, 12 March 2024 |
There are many symmetries in nature besides time translation, such as spatial translation or rotational symmetries. These symmetries can be broken and... 10 KB (1,054 words) - 12:38, 11 November 2023 |
Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group (category Symmetry) reader, the naive expectation for asymptotically flat spacetime symmetries, i.e., symmetries of spacetime seen by observers located far away from all sources... 12 KB (1,613 words) - 03:49, 28 January 2024 |
Poincaré group (redirect from Poincaré symmetry) was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the group of Minkowski spacetime isometries. It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian Lie group that is of importance... 15 KB (1,958 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024 |
Supersymmetry (redirect from Super symmetry) the more familiar symmetries of quantum field theory. These symmetries are grouped into the Poincaré group and internal symmetries and the Coleman–Mandula... 68 KB (7,498 words) - 04:48, 22 April 2024 |
Gauge theory (redirect from Gauge symmetry) model that has symmetries of this kind, together with a set of techniques for making physical predictions consistent with the symmetries of the model.... 47 KB (6,757 words) - 00:00, 10 April 2024 |
Quantum number (section Connection to symmetry) to spacetime symmetries are spin (related to rotational symmetry), the parity, C-parity and T-parity (related to the Poincaré symmetry of spacetime). Typical... 30 KB (3,104 words) - 00:38, 28 February 2024 |
material with various equations of state.) Static spacetime Stationary spacetime Spacetime symmetries De Sitter space Andrew J. S. Hamilton and Pedro P... 10 KB (1,566 words) - 15:04, 26 October 2021 |
in the study of spacetime symmetries where tensors or other geometrical objects are preserved. In particular, Killing symmetry (symmetry of the metric tensor... 42 KB (7,038 words) - 12:57, 21 November 2023 |
Killing vector field (redirect from Killing symmetry) _{a}(U^{b}X_{b})=0} This aids in analytically studying motions in a spacetime with symmetries. Given a conserved, symmetric tensor Tab{\displaystyle T^{ab}}... 27 KB (4,429 words) - 21:56, 9 April 2024 |
Conformal group (redirect from Conformal group of spacetime) of local symmetries is infinite dimensional, these do not necessarily extend to a Lie group of well-defined global symmetries. For spacetime dimension... 13 KB (1,832 words) - 23:06, 24 February 2024 |
and conservation laws for rotational and boost symmetries, or to describe spinors in curved spacetime geometries. The result of adding this infrastructure... 23 KB (3,106 words) - 16:08, 17 April 2024 |
generators are considered, then the only way to nontrivially mix spacetime and internal symmetries is through supersymmetry. The anticommutating generators must... 11 KB (1,370 words) - 04:24, 12 February 2024 |
important discrete symmetries are P-symmetry (parity) and T-symmetry (time reversal). These discrete symmetries, C, P and T, are symmetries of the equations... 35 KB (5,499 words) - 11:54, 8 November 2023 |
In mathematical physics, the conformal symmetry of spacetime is expressed by an extension of the Poincaré group, known as the conformal group. The extension... 8 KB (969 words) - 19:23, 20 December 2023 |
Minkowski space (redirect from Minkowski spacetime) In mathematical physics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) (/mɪŋˈkɔːfski, -ˈkɒf-/) combines inertial space and time manifolds with a non-inertial... 79 KB (10,530 words) - 23:01, 19 April 2024 |
Lorentz transformation (category Spacetime) PTΛ is proper antichronous. Two other spacetime symmetries have not been accounted for. In order for the spacetime interval to be invariant, it can be shown... 103 KB (14,094 words) - 18:14, 30 March 2024 |
philosophy from Rutgers in 2008. Her doctoral thesis was titled Spacetime Symmetries and the CPT Theorem and was supervised by Frank Arntzenius. She has... 9 KB (503 words) - 09:22, 12 April 2024 |
related the local spacetime curvature (expressed by the Einstein tensor) with the local energy, momentum and stress within that spacetime (expressed by the... 34 KB (5,088 words) - 17:20, 27 March 2024 |
Gödel metric (redirect from Gödel spacetime) {u}}\right]}_{{\hat {m}}{\hat {n}}}=0.} This is an artifact of the unusual symmetries of this spacetime, and implies that the putative "rotation" of the dust does not... 24 KB (3,800 words) - 16:35, 1 February 2024 |