nLab de Sitter group

Idea

The de Sitter group is the isometry group of de Sitter spacetime. In spacetime dimension $D = d+1$ its connected component is isomorphic to the orthogonal group $SO(D,1)$ in Lorentzian signature in one dimension higher.

This is analgous to the Poincaré group, which instead is the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime.

Related concepts

geometric context	gauge group	stabilizer subgroup	local model space	local geometry	global geometry	differential cohomology	first order formulation of gravity
differential geometry	Lie group/algebraic group $G$	subgroup (monomorphism) $H \hookrightarrow G$	quotient (“coset space”) $G/H$	Klein geometry	Cartan geometry	Cartan connection
examples	Euclidean group $Iso(d)$	rotation group $O(d)$	Cartesian space $\mathbb{R}^d$	Euclidean geometry	Riemannian geometry	affine connection	Euclidean gravity
	Poincaré group $Iso(d-1,1)$	Lorentz group $O(d-1,1)$	Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{d-1,1}$	Lorentzian geometry	pseudo-Riemannian geometry	spin connection	Einstein gravity
	anti de Sitter group $O(d-1,2)$	$O(d-1,1)$	anti de Sitter spacetime $AdS^d$				AdS gravity
	de Sitter group $O(d,1)$	$O(d-1,1)$	de Sitter spacetime $dS^d$				deSitter gravity
	linear algebraic group	parabolic subgroup/Borel subgroup	flag variety	parabolic geometry
	conformal group $O(d,t+1)$	conformal parabolic subgroup	Möbius space $S^{d,t}$		conformal geometry	conformal connection	conformal gravity
supergeometry	super Lie group $G$	subgroup (monomorphism) $H \hookrightarrow G$	quotient (“coset space”) $G/H$	super Klein geometry	super Cartan geometry	Cartan superconnection
examples	super Poincaré group	spin group	super Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{d-1,1\vert N}$	Lorentzian supergeometry	supergeometry	superconnection	supergravity
	super anti de Sitter group		super anti de Sitter spacetime
higher differential geometry	smooth 2-group $G$	2-monomorphism $H \to G$	homotopy quotient $G//H$	Klein 2-geometry	Cartan 2-geometry
	cohesive ∞-group	∞-monomorphism (i.e. any homomorphism) $H \to G$	homotopy quotient $G//H$ of ∞-action	higher Klein geometry	higher Cartan geometry	higher Cartan connection
examples			extended super Minkowski spacetime		extended supergeometry		higher supergravity: type II, heterotic, 11d

References

The de Sitter Lie algebra is discussed for instance in

• Leonardo Castellani, Riccardo D'Auria, Pietro Fré, volume 1, chapter I.3.8 of Supergravity and Superstrings - A Geometric Perspective, World Scientific (1991)

On the representation theory of the de Sitter group and its Inönü-Wigner contraction to that of the Poincaré group:

• Jouko Mickelsson, J. Niederle, Contractions of Representations of de Sitter Groups, Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 27, Number 3 (1972), 167-180. (Euclid)

• Mauricio Ayala, Richard Haase, Group contractions and its consequences upon representations of different spatial symmetry groups (arXiv:hep-th/0206037)

• Francisco J. Herranz, Mariano Santander, section 4 of (Anti)de Sitter/Poincare symmetries and representations from Poincare/Galilei through a classical deformation approach, J.Phys.A41:015204,2008 (arXiv:math-ph/0612059)

• Thomas Basile, Xavier Bekaert, Nicolas Boulanger, Mixed-symmetry fields in de Sitter space: a group theoretical glance (arXiv:1612.08166)

• Zimo Sun, A note on the representations of $SO(1,d+1)$ (arXiv:2111.04591)

• Vladimir Schaub, A Walk Through $Spin(1,d+1)$ [arXiv:2405.01659]