Axiomatic relativity theory

DOI10.1070/RM1982v037n02ABEH003942zbMath0504.53017MaRDI QIDQ4741338

Alexander K. Guts

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1070/rm1982v037n02abeh003942

zbMATH Keywords

spacetime; Lorentz group; chronogeometry; spacetime geometry; ordered space; cone family; connected preorder; Riemann-Helmholtz-Lie problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

54F05: Linearly ordered topological spaces, generalized ordered spaces, and partially ordered spaces

83-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory

53B30: Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics

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