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Lorentzian worldlines and the Schwarzian derivative

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The aim of this note is to relate the classical Schwarzian derivative and the geometry of Lorentz surfaces of constant curvature.

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Université de la Méditerranée and CPT-CNRS, CNRS, Centre de Physique Théorique, Translated from Funktsional'nyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 69–72, April–June, 2000.

Translated by C. Duval and V. Ovsienko

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Duval, C., Ovsienko, V. Lorentzian worldlines and the Schwarzian derivative. Funct Anal Its Appl 34, 135–137 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02482428

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