Published October 11, 1977 | Version v1
Journal article

Special relativity with a discrete spectrum of singular velocities

  • 1. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia del CSIC (GIFT) y Catedra de Mecanica Teorica, Madrid, Spain

Description

The introduction of real transformation formulae containing a whole discrete spectrum of singularities is suggested. Some phenomenological hypotheses are introduced and the group property is substituted by weaker conditions. The first singular speed (c1=c) is invariant with respect to the measures of it from subluminal frames, but the remaining speeds are not invariant. The proposed transformations do not form a closed set (for the superluminal speeds) and, therefore, the problem of having (within this framework) a principle of relativity valid for any velocity remains open

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Journal Title
Nuovo Cim., B
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
2
Series
Nuovo Cim., B.
Journal Page Range
317-326

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