Self-adjoint Elements in the Pseudo-unitary Group ${\bf U}\left(p,p\right)$

Abstract

The pseudo-unitary group ${\bf U}\left(p,q\right)$ of signature $\left(p,q\right)$ is the group of matrices that preserve the indefinite pseudo-Euclidean metric on the vector space $\mathbb{C}^{p,q}$. The goal of this paper is to describe the set ${\bf U}_{s}\left(p,p\right)$ of Hermitian, or, self-adjoint elements in ${\bf U}\left(p,p\right)$.