Relativity without light: A new proof of Ignatowski's theorem
Mathematical Physics
2022-11-30 v2 math.MP
Abstract
V. Ignatowski (1910) showed that assumptions about light are not necessary to obtain Lorentzian kinematics as one of only few possibilities. We give a much simplified proof of his result as formulated by V. Gorini (1971) for +1-dimensional space-time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.09301,
title = {Relativity without light: A new proof of Ignatowski's theorem},
author = {Jean-Philippe Anker and Francois Ziegler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.09301},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
9 pages. Accepted version, to appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics