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Elementary proof of Zeeman's theorem

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We prove that the nonaffine conformal transformations of four-dimensional Minkowski space are necessarily global causality violators, and use this fact to obtain an elementary group-theoretic proof of the theorem that global causality implies the Lorentz group.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, The City University, EC1V 0HB, London

    A. J. Briginshaw

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Briginshaw, A.J. Elementary proof of Zeeman's theorem. Int J Theor Phys 19, 899–903 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00671481

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