A Physical Characterization of Conformal Transformations of Minkowski Spacetime

DOI10.1016/S0304-0208(08)73334-6zbMath0507.51004MaRDI QIDQ4744886

June A. Lester

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Combinatorics '81 in honour of Beniamino Segre, Proceedings of the International Conference on Combinatorial Geometrics and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformations; Minkowski spacetime; conformally invariant; conformal Minkowski space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

51B20: Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry

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