199 causal classes of space-time frames

DOI10.1007/BF00675095MaRDI QIDQ1200619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan Antonio Morales, Bartolomé Coll

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00675095

zbMATH Keywords

causal classes of framesspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Review text

The authors emphasis that it is difficult to conceive the notion of space-time without decomposing the local domain into space and time. Developing this, they conclude that the space-time admits, 199 and only 199 causal classes of frames.

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