A systematic search for a three-velocity gyrodistributive law in special relativity with the lorentz R package
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 and scalar multiplication . Standard vector spaces obey the distributive law for scalar and vectors , ; but no analogous gyrodistributive law for 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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31 pages