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In this chapter we review the algebraic preliminaries on semi-Euclidean vector spaces, subspaces of Minkowski spaces (including degenerate subspaces) and the algebraic classification of the electromagnetic tensor field in R 41 . Finally, we review some algebraic structures (needed in this book), namely, groups, Lie groups and Lie algebras.
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Duggal, K.L., Sharma, R. (1999). Preliminaries. In: Symmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 487. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5315-1_1
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