Coordinate transformation between inertial frames consistent with the two postulates of special relativity; replaces Galilean transformation.
Lorentz transformation
Related concepts
- Principle of relativity
- Constancy of the speed of light
- Speed of light in vacuum (c)
- Time dilation
- Newton's first law (inertia)
- Change of basis
- Linear map
- Electromagnetic field tensor F^{μν}
- Liénard–Wiechert potentials
- Classical scalar field
- Klein–Gordon equation
- Poincaré group
- Lorentz boost generators and algebra
- Proper time and time dilation
- Length contraction
- Relativity of simultaneity
- Thomas precession
- Relativistic Doppler effect
- Aberration of light
- Spin-statistics theorem