Conjecture on quantity structures of special relativity with approximate motion
Conjecture on quantity structures of special relativity with approximate motion
Let be the spacetime dimension, let be the theory of special relativity, and let be the axiom expressing that inertial observers can move roughly with any speed less than the speed of light, roughly in any direction. For a theory , let denote the class of quantity structures of its -dimensional models. Quantity-structure conjecture. There is a model of over every ordered field, equivalently,
The paper presents determining these quantity structures as an open question; the conjecture would extend the known rational and Archimedean ordered-field examples to all ordered fields.
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H. Andréka, J. X. Madarász, I. Németi and G. Székely, “What are the numbers in which spacetime?”, arXiv:1204.1350 (2012).
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