Mathematical structure of physical quantities

DOI10.1007/BF00286495MaRDI QIDQ1825856zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anders Kock

Publication date 1989

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/193224

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsphysical dimensionsphysical quantitiespi-theorem of dimensional analysisshort exact sequence

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Review text

The set of all physical quantities is conceived as a (multiplicatively written) vector space; it sits in the middle of a short exact sequence, with the set of pure quantities, and the set of physical dimensions, respectively, as the two ends. Invariants of the group of (end-fixing) automorphisms of this structure are studied and characterized by a theorem which is a purely mathematical form of the pi-theorem of dimensional analysis.

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4064079 (Why is no real title available?)
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• Mathematical structure of unit systems
• The Mathematics of Physical Quantities: Part I: Mathematical Models for Measurement
• Scalable monoids and quantity calculus
• On augmented dimensional analysis

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