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Pure Lorentz Boosts

Definitions and and conventions for a pure boost classes match those described in equation ([*]). Here we will write out the matrix in detail, for a boost specified by $\vec{b}$, a Hep3Vector with magnitude $0 < \beta < 1$ (here we write $\vec{b} = \beta \hat{u} $ and $\gamma \equiv \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\beta^2}}$):


$\displaystyle \mbox{LorentzBoost}(\beta \hat{u}) =
\left(
\begin{array}{cccc}
(...
...ta \gamma u_x & \beta \gamma u_y &
\beta \gamma u_z & \gamma
\end{array}\right)$     (169)



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