Non-orthochronous Lorentz transformation ↩

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created: 2022-02-22 18:17:52
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A Lorentz transformation that is not orthochronous.
Let be a Minkowski spacetime and the matrix of a Lorentz transformation on it.

If

the transformation does not preserve the direction of time and is called non-orthochronous.1

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  1. The definition may differ in other conventions (e.g. when the time component is the first one).
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