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E(2) isomorphism becomes "Cylindrical Symmetry" for massless particles

  • Click here for a published paper of 1987.

  • Up-down translation becomes the gauge transformation.

  • The four-by-four Lorentz-transform matrix contains can deform a sphere in two different ways: elongation and contraction along the z direction. They become cylindrical and E(2) respectively.

  • These deformations happen when the system is boosted along the z axis.






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