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Yes, your intuition is correct: two different boosts do contain one rotation, and precisely two boosts along two orthogonal axes contain one rotation around the third orthogonal axis --- the most direct way to see that is by considering that the commutator of two different boosts is one rotation, and more completely the Lorentz algebra of rotations $R_{a}$ ...

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To take the partial trace you need to build the sum over the matrix elements w.r.t. the same input and output basis, as you probably already used to calculate the partial traces you gave. In Dirac notation this is often written as: $$tr_A(L_{AB}) =\sum_i \langle i|_A L_{AB} |i\rangle_A=\langle0|0\rangle\langle 0|0\rangle ... 1 Let H_A \otimes H_B be your Hilbert space, and O be an operator acting on this composite space. Then O can be written has$$ O = \sum_{i,j} c_{ij} M_i \otimes N_j$$where the M_i's and N_j's act on H_A and H_B respectively. Then the partial trace over H_A defined as$$tr_{H_A}(O) = \sum_{i,j} c_{ij} tr(M_i) N_j , and similarly for $H_B$.

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