Representation theory of the Galilean group to , and applying Hamilton's equations, we obtain the mass-velocity relation . The hypersurface is parametrized by this velocity In . Consider the stabilizer of a point on the orbit, (), where the velocity is . Because of transitivity, we know the unitary irrep contains a nontrivial linear subspace with these energy-momentum eigenvalues. (This subspace only exists in a rigged Hilbert space, because the momentum spectrum is continuous.) The subspace is spanned by , , and . We already know how the subspace of the irrep transforms under all operators but the angular momentum. Note that the rotation subgroup is
Mass in special relativity Mass in special relativity Mass in special relativity incorporates the general understandings from the laws of motion of special relativity along with its concept of mass–energy equivalence. The word "mass" is given two meanings in special relativity: one ("rest" or "invariant mass", and its equivalent "rest energy") is an invariant quantity which is the same for all observers in all reference frames; the other ("relativistic mass" or the equivalent "total energy" of the body) is dependent on the velocity of the observer. The term "relativistic mass" tends not to be used in particle and nuclear physics and is often avoided