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A note on the planar triangles in Minkowski spacetime

Classical Physics 2024-08-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The geometry of 2D Minkowski spacetime R1,1\mathbb{R}^{1,1} (or Minkowski plane) is similar but fundamentally different from the more familiar Euclidean plane geometry. This note gives an elementary discussion on some basic properties of a triangle on the Minkowski plane. In particular, we show that the theorem of Feuerbach also holds and a use of the incenter/excenters is pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.2408.03898,
  title  = {A note on the planar triangles in Minkowski spacetime},
  author = {Yan Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.03898},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure; fixed some errors

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:06:44.238Z