Talk:Poincaré group

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Sure, but keep the article called Poincaré group and merge material from Poincaré symmetry with this one.

I am currently trying to improve the articles on Lorentz group and Möbius group, and will probably have some related suggestions for this one. To name just one: why not list ten generators of the Lie algebra, in the form

\partial_t
x \partial_t + t \partial_x
-y \partial_x + x \partial_y

Maybe there should be a kind of simple infobox template for listing generators of a Lie algebra? I'd like to eventually modify existing articles to explain at an undergraduate level why thinking of a vector field as a linear first order differential operator with nonconstant coefficients is to useful in math/physics. ---2 July 2005 04:23 (UTC)

[edit] Poincaré algebra

Poincaré algebra links to this article, so what is a Poincaré algebra? Is it the Lie algebra of the Poincaré group? This needs to be made clear. - 72.58.19.66 03:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes it is. I've made this explicit. -- Fropuff 04:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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