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A systematic search for a three-velocity gyrodistributive law in special relativity with the lorentz R package

Classical Physics 2025-07-01 v1

Abstract

Here I present the lorentz package for working with relativistic physics. The package includes functionality for four-vector transformations, three-velocity addition, and other relativistic processes such as the behaviour of photons. It was designed to facilitate the search for a gyrodistributive law. In special relativity, three-velocities and scalars constitute a gyrovector space with addition \oplus and scalar multiplication \odot. Standard vector spaces obey the distributive law a(x+y)=ax+aya(x + y) = ax + ay for scalar aa and vectors xx, yy; but no analogous gyrodistributive law for r(uv)r\odot (u \oplus v) is known. The package was designed to facilitate the search for a gyrodistributive law and includes functionality for four-vector transformations and three-velocity addition, which is noncommutative and nonassociative. I use the package to systematically sweep a large space of potential gyrodistributive laws, without success. The package is available on CRAN, at \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lorentz}.

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@article{arxiv.2212.07005,
  title  = {A systematic search for a three-velocity gyrodistributive law in special relativity with the lorentz R package},
  author = {Robin K. S. Hankin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.07005},
  year   = {2025}
}

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