Why \(3+1\) metric rather than \(4+0\) or \(2+2\)?

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)01140-6zbMath0974.83040arXivhep-th/0108067OpenAlexW1990496220MaRDI QIDQ5947908

Y. Jack Ng, H. van Dam

Publication date: 23 October 2001

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108067

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible unitary representationsgroup theoryinfinite-dimensional representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45)

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