scientific article; zbMATH DE number 749967

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Authors June A. Lester

Publication date 22 November 1995

zbMATH Keywords

distanceAlexandrov's theoremMinkowski space-timeEuclidean spaceLorentz transformationBeckman-Quarles theoremmetric vector spaceEinstein's cylinder universedistance preserving transformationsZeeman-type theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Metric geometry (51Fxx) Real and complex geometry (51Mxx)

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