Causality and the Lorentz Group
Abstract
A simple proof with the use of Hermitian matrices is presented of Zeeman's theorem that the group of self-transformations of Minkowski space, preserving causality, is the orthochronous inhomogeneous Lorentz group with dilations.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A
- Pub Date:
- April 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rspa.1982.0053
- Bibcode:
- 1982RSPSA.380..487H