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At the boundary of Minkowski space

open access: yes, 2021
The Cayley transform compactifies Minkowski space $\M$, realized as self-adjoint $2\times2$ complex matrices following Penrose, as the unitary group $\U(2)$. Its complement is a compactification of a copy of a light-cone as it is usually drawn, constructed by adjoining a bubble or $\CP_1$ of unitary matrices with eigenvalue $\pm 1$ at the ends of a ...
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Static cosmic strings in space–time with torsion, and strings with electromagnetism

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2016
Cosmic strings are considered in space–time with torsion derived from a two-form potential, and in Minkowski space–time with electromagnetism. Using the curvature scalar as the geometrical part of the Lagrangian density, and the natural coupling to ...
Richard T Hammond
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On Minkowski space and finite geometry

open access: yesJournal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 2017
The main aim of this interdisciplinary paper is to characterize all maps on finite Minkowski space of arbitrary dimension $n$ that map pairs of distinct light-like events into pairs of distinct light-like events. Neither bijectivity of maps nor preservation of light-likeness in the opposite direction, i.e. from codomain to domain, is assumed.
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