Two-dimensional Minkowski causal automorphisms and conformal maps

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/3/035007zbMATH Open1266.83008arXiv1305.0962OpenAlexW2056259546MaRDI QIDQ4920145FDOQ4920145

Authors: Juan Manuel Burgos 

Publication date: 16 May 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Treating the two-dimensional Minkowski space as a Wick rotated version of the complex plane, we characterize the causal automorphisms in two-dimensional Minkowski space as the M"{a}rzke-Wheeler maps of a certain class of observers. We also characterize the differentiable causal automorphisms of this space as the Minkowski conformal maps whose restriction to the time axis belongs to the class of observers mentioned above. We answer a recently raised question about whether causal automorphisms are characterized by their wave equation. As another application of the theory, we give a proper time formula for accelerated observers which solves the twin paradox in two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0962

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal mapstwin paradoxtwo-dimensional Minkowski space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Continuous lattices and posets, applications (06B35) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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