Formal statement of the special principle of relativity

DOI10.1007/S11229-013-0374-1MaRDI QIDQ514581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Márton Gömöri, Lázló E. Szabó

Publication date 9 March 2017

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2374

zbMATH Keywords

covarianceoperationalismspecial relativity principleuniversal meta-law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Other applications of logic (03B80)

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to develop a proper mathematical formalism which can help to clarify the necessary conceptual plugins to the special principle of relativity and leads to a deeper understanding of the principle in its widest generality.

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