Continuous space-time transformations

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2017-0056zbMATH Open1398.83007arXiv1502.01149OpenAlexW2963805151MaRDI QIDQ1653986FDOQ1653986

Authors: Clément de Seguins Pazzis, Peter Šemrl 

Publication date: 7 August 2018

Published in: advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that every continuous map acting on the four-dimensional Minkowski space and preserving light cones in one direction only is either a Poincar'e similarity, that is, a product of a Lorentz transformation and a dilation, or it is of a very special degenerate form. In the presence of the continuity assumption the main tool in the proof is a basic result from the homotopy theory of spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01149

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zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian matrixhomotopyMinkowski spaceadjacencycoherencyspace-time event

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear preserver problems (15A86) Special maps on metric spaces (54E40) Special relativity (83A05)

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