I Boost Generators: Physical Meaning & Observable Quantities

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Do the generators of boosts correspond to anything physical?
So, all of the generators of the Poincare group are associated with pretty well-known physical quantities. Time translation is associated with energy, space translations with momentum, rotations with angular momentum, and boosts... well, boosts are generated by the "generators of boosts". Do they correspond to any observable?
 
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A proper understanding of boosts in the context of your question requires unifying them with rotations; note that the split between what is a "boost" and what is a "rotation" is frame-dependent. When we unify boosts and rotations, we find that there is a relativistic angular momentum tensor that corresponds to the boost/rotation generators. Wikipedia has a brief discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relat...e_generator_of_spacetime_boosts_and_rotations
 
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