On Mappings Preserving a Single Lorentz-Minkowski-Distance. I

DOI10.1016/S0304-0208(08)73291-2zbMath0499.51004OpenAlexW4255726860MaRDI QIDQ3965193

Walter Benz

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Combinatorics '81 in honour of Beniamino Segre, Proceedings of the International Conference on Combinatorial Geometrics and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-0208(08)73291-2

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz transformations in Jaernefelt's 2-dimensional space-time are characterized as mappings preserving one non-zero proper length or proper time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20)

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