Solution

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The spinor transformation is , with . Its squared norm becomes
Dividing by isolates the new direction without discarding the physical scale factor in . The lower-to-upper component ratio gives
Equivalently,
This is relativistic aberration for the active positive- boost specified in the question. At the poles, azimuth is undefined rather than a measurable transformed variable. Under the literal matrix convention from (c), the actual azimuth is likewise unchanged. The time coordinate is multiplied by ; normalizing a spinor for its direction must not erase that boost-induced change of null-vector scale.

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