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Special relativity in complex vector algebra

Garret Sobczyk
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Many different mathematical languages have been invented to describe the ideas of Einstein's special relativity. One of the most powerful languages is the Minkowski space-time algebra of D. Hestenes. We discuss the ideas of special relativity in a complex 4-dimensional algebra of observables, which is algebraically isomorphic to the even subalgebra of Hestenes' space-time algebra.

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Garret Sobczyk. 2007-09-29. Special relativity in complex vector algebra. https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0084

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