An axiomatic foundation of relativistic spacetime

DOI10.1007/S11229-013-0345-6MaRDI QIDQ514583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Benda

Publication date 9 March 2017

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-0345-6

zbMATH Keywords

first-order logicgeneral relativityaxiomatizationset theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Axiomatics of classical set theory and its fragments (03E30)

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