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A geometrical proof that causality implies the Lorentz group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. Nanda
S. Nanda
Affiliation:
Engineering College, Rourkela 769008, India
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That causality implies the Lorentz group was first proved by Zeeman (1). Later, Barruchi (2) and Teppati(3) proved a generalised version of the theorem by using completely different arguments. In this paper, we give a very simple and elementary geometric proof of the same theorem.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , May 1976 , pp. 533 - 536
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1976

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