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Contact transformations and conformal group. I. Relativistic theory

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We find and identify the contact group of plane hyperbolic conformal geometry as a step to a better understanding of conformal invariance in physics.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, Zaragoza

    Luis J. Boya

  2. Facultad de Ciencias, Valladolid

    José M. Cerveró

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Boya, L.J., Cerveró, J.M. Contact transformations and conformal group. I. Relativistic theory. Int J Theor Phys 12, 47–54 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01884109

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