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arxiv: math-ph/9910049 · v1 · submitted 1999-10-29 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

On the role of mass in the mathematical structure of Newtonian and special relativistic mechanics

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We consider five-dimensional real linear spaces with a (otherwise well-known) linear action of the Galilei and the Poincare group on them, describe the geometry of these two spaces, and show, that these geometries comprise the notions of space-time, mass, momentum, force and physical dimensions in a natural way. In this way we geometrize the quantity of mass and integrate it together with space-time into two geometries in a natural way, so that these geometries are perfectly suitable for underlying the Newtonian and special relativistic mechanics of pointlike bodies.

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