The ordered-field conjecture for special relativity with approximate expansion
The ordered-field conjecture for special relativity with approximate expansion
Let . Write for the class of quantity structures of models of a theory , and let be the axiom system for -dimensional special relativity. Let be the approximate version of the axiom asserting that inertial observers can move with arbitrary subluminal speeds. An ordered field is a field equipped with a compatible total order. The ordered-field conjecture. For all ,
The question of exactly which ordered fields occur as quantity structures is stated to be open; the conjecture would characterize them all, in every dimension, extending the established rational and Archimedean-field cases.
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Madarász X. Judit and Gergely Székely, “Special Relativity over the Field of Rational Numbers”, arXiv:1209.3492 (2012).
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