Why do the relativistic masses and momenta of faster-than-light particles decrease as their speeds increase?

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2014.005zbMATH Open1302.83003arXiv1309.3713WikidataQ57691197 ScholiaQ57691197MaRDI QIDQ2447862FDOQ2447862

Authors: Judit Madarász, Mike Stannett, Gergely Székely 

Publication date: 29 April 2014

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has recently been shown within a formal axiomatic framework using a definition of four-momentum based on the St"uckelberg-Feynman-Sudarshan-Recami "switching principle" that Einstein's relativistic dynamics is logically consistent with the existence of interacting faster-than-light inertial particles. Our results here show, using only basic natural assumptions on dynamics, that this definition is the only possible way to get a consistent theory of such particles moving within the geometry of Minkowskian spacetime. We present a strictly formal proof from a streamlined axiom system that given any slow or fast inertial particle, all inertial observers agree on the value of $mathsfmcdotsqrt|1-v^2|$, where $mathsfm$ is the particle's relativistic mass and $v$ its speed. This confirms formally the widely held belief that the relativistic mass and momentum of a positive-mass faster-than-light particle must decrease as its speed increases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3713

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zbMATH Keywords

axiomatic methoddynamicsfirst-order logictachyonsspecial relativitysuperluminal motionfaster-than-light particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05)

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