INFINITESIMAL LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE STATES OF POLARIZATION OF FREE PHOTONS

Authors
ARGYRIS J CIUBOTARIU C ANDREADIS I
Citation
J. Argyris et al., INFINITESIMAL LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE STATES OF POLARIZATION OF FREE PHOTONS, Foundations of physics letters, 11(3), 1998, pp. 277-285
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Foundations of physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
08949875
Volume
11
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
277 - 285
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-9875(1998)11:3<277:ILTATS>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Applying the tangent dynamics technique as generated by infinitesimal Lorentz transformations, it is shown that the components of an electro magnetic field correspond to the Lie-Cartan parameters of the group SO (3,1). Thus the maximum number of non-null components of the magnetic field (i.e., the number of the states of polarization) is not decided by the number of group generators.