Continuous space-time transformations

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作者
Pazzis, Clement de Seguins [1 ]
Semrl, Peter [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Versailles St Quentin En Yvelines, Lab Math Versailles, 45 Ave Etats Unis, F-78035 Versailles, France
[2] Univ Ljubljana, Fac Math & Phys, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
关键词
Minkowski space; space-time event; hermitian matrix; coherency; adjacency; homotopy;
D O I
10.1515/advgeom-2017-0056
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
We prove that every continuous map acting on the four-dimensional Minkowski space and preserving light cones in one direction only is either a Poincare similarity, that is, a product of a Lorentz transformation and a dilation, or it is of a very special degenerate form.
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页码:385 / 393
页数:9
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