Lorentz (disambiguation)

Lorentz is a surname and a given name.

Lorentz may also refer to:

Things named for Hendrik Lorentz

  • Lorentz factor, Doppler effect
  • The Lorentz-Lorenz law, the law regarding the refractive index of a substance discovered independently by Hendrik Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz
  • Lorentz force, the force exerted on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field
  • Lorentz transformation, the formula that provides the mathematical backbone for Einstein's theory of special relativity
  • The Lorentz group, the group containing all Lorentz transformations
  • Lorentz-Cauchy distribution, a distribution used in fitting peaks in a spectrum
  • Lorentz surface, a two-dimensional oriented smooth manifold with a conformal equivalence class of Lorentzian metrics. It is the analogue of a Riemann surface in indefinite signature
  • Lorentz curve (disambiguation), various meanings
  • Lorentz scalar, a scalar which is invariant under a Lorentz transformation
  • Lorentz Institute, Instituut-Lorentz in Dutch, was established in 1921 and is the oldest institute for theoretical physics in The Netherlands

Places

Other uses

  • Lorentz Medal, a prize awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Lorentz space, in mathematics, a function space named after the American mathematician George G. Lorentz.
  • Lorentz catfish, a species of fish in the family Ariidae, the only member of the genus Tetranesodon, endemic to West Papua in Indonesia

See also