Expression of the 3- and 4-dimensional vectors in total polar exponential form

We express the vectors in R3 and in R4 (M) in terms of square 2x2 matrices. The objective is to write these vectors in a similar way as the complex numbers in C, once considered the isomorphism of R2 with C, with the exponential polar form, including the Euler's formula. In this way we are able...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Olmedilla Moreno, Eugenio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/8183
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8183
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
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Formulación matricial
Tiempo y espacio
Relatividad especial
Formula de Euler.
Matrix formalism
Time and space
Special Relativity
Euler´s formula
Astrofísica
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
Álgebra
Geometría
1201 Álgebra
1204 Geometría
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Sumario:We express the vectors in R3 and in R4 (M) in terms of square 2x2 matrices. The objective is to write these vectors in a similar way as the complex numbers in C, once considered the isomorphism of R2 with C, with the exponential polar form, including the Euler's formula. In this way we are able to write the vectors in R3 and in the Minkowski space M in matrix exponential form and also in an extended polar matrix exponential form. The treatment motivates a digression on the structure of the time and space.