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<journal-id>0035-001X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de física]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. mex. fis.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0035-001X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Mexicana de Física]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0035-001X2023000400701</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31349/revmexfis.69.040701</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Application of the SU(1, 1) spinors in the study of the Lorentz transformations]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Torres del Castillo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[G. F.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Instituto de Ciencias ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Puebla Pue.]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>69</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0035-001X2023000400701&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0035-001X2023000400701&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0035-001X2023000400701&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ We show that the orthochronous proper Lorentz transformations that preserve the condition z = 0 can be parametrized by (two-component) SU(1,1) spinors in such a way that the Wigner angle associated with a pair of non-collinear boosts is given by one of the scalar products defined between these spinors.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Lorentz transformations]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[SU(1,1) spinors]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Wigner angle]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[hyperbolic geometry]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[holonomy angle]]></kwd>
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