Relativity on two-dimensional spacetimes

2013/07/26 by Do‐Hyung Kim, Kim, Do-Hyung
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Relativity and Gravitational Theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.6956

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Abstract

Lorentz transformation on two-dimensional spacetime is obtained without assumption of linearity. To obtain this, we use the invariance of wave equations, which is recently proved to be equivalent to the causality preservation.

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