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A rotation1 may be specified by a vector, θ , in such a way that (Fig. 1.1.1) the rotation axis lies along θ , the rotation angle being θ = |θ|, and the direction of the rotation determined by the corkscrew rule. If we denote the rotation by R(θ ), it acts upon a vector r according to
for θ infinitesimal,
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Ynduráin, F.J. (1996). Relativistic Transformations. The Lorentz Group. In: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Field Theory. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61057-8_1
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