"Poincaré transformation" is the name sometimes (e.g., Misner et al. 1973, p. 68) given to what other authors (e.g., Weinberg 1972, p. 26) term an inhomogeneous Lorentz transformation
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where 
is a Lorentz tensor.
Poincaré Transformation
See also
Lorentz Transformation, Poincaré GroupExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Misner, C. W.; Thorne, K. S.; and Wheeler, J. A. Gravitation. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1973.Weinberg, S. Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity. New York: Wiley, 1972.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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