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The Space Groups of Two Dimensional Minkowski Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

George Maxwell*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Let E be an n-dimensional real affine space, V its vector space of translations and A(E) the affine group of E. Suppose that (. , .) is a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form on F of signature (n — 1, 1), O(V) its orthogonal group and S(V) its group of similarities.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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