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Symmetry transformations in indefinite metric spaces. A generalization of Wigner’s theorem. (English) Zbl 0599.20072

We formulate and prove a generalization to indefinite metric spaces of Uhlhorn’s version of Wigner’s theorem.

MSC:

20G45 Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences
15A04 Linear transformations, semilinear transformations
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