Static space-times naturally lead to quasi-pseudometrics (Q949615)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Static space-times naturally lead to quasi-pseudometrics
scientific article

    Statements

    Static space-times naturally lead to quasi-pseudometrics (English)
    0 references
    21 October 2008
    0 references
    The introduction to this paper describes some general interdisciplinary relations between computer science, mathematics and physics, applied to the notion of a spacetime. In section 2, a generalization of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity is given which keeps the time as usual, but allows arbitrary metric spaces as spatial part of spacetime, they even do not need to be locally Euclidean. The main result of this section is a relation between quasi-pseudometrics on the one hand and causality relations which are a pre-order on the other. Section 3 introduces symmetries into spacetime and shows their relation to causality. Section 4 deals with the anti-triangle inequality. The result of this section can be roughly formulated as follows: the twin paradox from special relativity keeps its structure also for the class of quasi-pseudometrics discussed in the present paper.
    0 references
    space-time
    0 references
    quasi-pseudometric
    0 references
    causality
    0 references
    anti-triangle inequality
    0 references
    relativity
    0 references
    kinematic metric
    0 references

    Identifiers