Canonical forms of Self-Adjoint Operators in Minkowski Space-time
Rings and Algebras
2014-04-08 v1
Abstract
We classify the possible Jordan canonical forms of self-adjoint operators in Minkowski space-time (in fact in pseudo-Euclidean space, i.e. an indefinite inner product space) and we show how to obtain a Jordan canonical basis which also puts the metric in a canonical form.
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@article{arxiv.1404.1867,
title = {Canonical forms of Self-Adjoint Operators in Minkowski Space-time},
author = {Krishan Rajaratnam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1867},
year = {2014}
}