Summary
We briefly revisit the introduction of generalized Lorentz transformations (GLT) in four dimensions, by writing them in a new form which satisfies the requested group-theoretical properties. The new GLTs, in the particular case of boosts, reduce to the ones by Mignani and Recami (the latter, in fact, forming a group only in the case of collinear boosts). Some other aspects are briefly clarified.
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Maccarrone, G.D., Recami, E. Revisiting the superluminal Lorentz transformations and their group-theoretical properties. Lett. Nuovo Cimento 34, 251–256 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02817120
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