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On null cone preserving mappings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. A. Lester  and
M. A. McKiernan
J. A. Lester
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
M. A. McKiernan
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Alexandrov (1), Zeeman (3) and others after them have investigated at length the problem of characterizing as Lorentz transformations those mappings f of Minkowski space M which ‘preserve cones’, i.e. if C(a) denotes the null-cone in M with vertex a ∈ M, then

for all a ∈ M.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , May 1977 , pp. 455 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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