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The restriction to linearity of the Lorentz transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

V. V. Narliker
V. V. Narliker
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Fitzwilliam House, Isaac Newton Student
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The literature about the Lorentz transformation is already so wide that some justification is needed for presenting even a small paper on the subject. It is possible to deduce the transformation from essentially different sets of relevant assumptions. The standard text-books on relativity throw little light on this question, which is probably due to the circumstances in which the Lorentz transformation first came into the field. Probably the question is important enough for the following considerations to be worthy of notice.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1932 , pp. 460 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1932

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