Mathematical structure of unit systems

DOI10.1063/1.4802876MaRDI QIDQ5402257zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Masao Kitano

Publication date 6 March 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1291, http://hdl.handle.net/2433/187968

zbMATH Keywords

Buckingham Pi-theoremMKSA systemunit systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) General topics in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A99)

Abstract: We investigate the mathematical structure of unit systems and the relations between them. Looking over the entire set of unit systems, we can find a mathematical structure that is called preorder (or quasi-order). For some pair of unit systems, there exists a relation of preorder such that one unit system is transferable to the other unit system. The transfer (or conversion) is possible only when all of the quantities distinguishable in the latter system are always distinguishable in the former system. By utilizing this structure, we can systematically compare the representations in different unit systems. Especially, the equivalence class of unit systems (EUS) plays an important role because the representations of physical quantities and equations are of the same form in unit systems belonging to an EUS. The dimension of quantities is uniquely defined in each EUS. The EUS's form a partially ordered set. Using these mathematical structures, unit systems and EUS's are systematically classified and organized as a hierarchical tree.

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