Linearity of space-time transformations without the one-to-one, line-onto-line, or constancy-of-speed-of-light assumptions

DOI10.1007/PL00005542zbMath0981.51022MaRDI QIDQ5940545

Iosif Pinelis, Alexander Chubarev

Publication date: 9 August 2001

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

special relativity; affine mappings; Fundamental Theorem of Geometry; Lorentz transformations; Pappus theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83A05: Special relativity

15A04: Linear transformations, semilinear transformations

51P05: Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics

51N10: Affine analytic geometry

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