Mappings of spaces with families of cones and space-time transformations

DOI10.1007/BF02414157zbMath0302.50009OpenAlexW2032597763MaRDI QIDQ1215941

A. D. Alexandroff

Publication date: 1975

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02414157

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Affine analytic geometry (51N10)

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