Concept information
Preferred term
Poincaré group
Definition(s)
- The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1906), 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 as a model in our understanding of the most basic fundamentals of physics. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_group)
Broader concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- Poincaré invariance
- Poincaré symmetry
In other languages
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French
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invariance de Poincaré
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symétrie de Poincaré
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-CZJMQL0G-F
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