A new look at relativity transformations

1999/01/23 by Ruggiero de Ritis, Giuseppe Marmo, Bruno Preziosi
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc

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published as Gen.Rel.Grav. 31 (1999) 1501-1517 · 19 pages, Latex, 1 figure. Gen. Rel. Grav., to be published

arxiv created 1999/01/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

A free system, considered to be a comparison system, allows for the notion of objective existence and inertial frame. Transformations connecting inertial frames are shown to be either Lorentz or generalized Galilei.

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