Phys. Rev. D 78, 064068 (2008) [5 pages]Note on quantum Minkowski spaceReceived 14 May 2008; published 26 September 2008 In this work, some interesting details about quantum Minkowski space and quantum Lorentz group structures are revealed. The task is accomplished by generalizing an approach adopted in a previous work where quantum rotation group and quantum Euclidean space structures have been investigated. The generalized method is based on a mapping relating the q-spinors (precisely the tensor product of dotted and undotted fondamental q-spinors) to Minkowski q-vectors. As a result of this mapping, the quantum analog of Minkowski space is constructed (with a definite metric). Also, the matrix representation of the quantum Lorentz group is determined together with its corresponding q-deformed orthogonality relation. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.064068
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.064068
PACS:
04.20.Gz, 02.20.Uw
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