Abstract: | In the mathematical model of the special relativity theory, a two-dimensional Minkowski subspace is treated as a one-dimensional
direction in the physical space. The manifold of such planes is naturally endowed with the structure of a pseudo-Riemannian
manifold on which the group of isochronous Lorentz transformations acts transitively by isometries. In this paper, the topology
and the metric geometry of this manifold are studied. Bibliography: 4 titles.
Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminar POMI, Vol. 246, 1997, pp. 141–151.
Translated by S. Yu. Pilyugin. |