On the History of Geometrization of Space-time: From Minkowski to Finsler Geometry

Abstract

The article is a tribute to Hermann Minkowski leading from his geometry of numbers to an attempt at using Finsler geometry for a break of Lorentz invariance.

20 pages and a glossary (3pp)

References in corpus (3)

• Very Special Relativity
• General Very Special Relativity is Finsler Geometry
• Lorentz-violating electrodynamics and the cosmic microwave background

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Relativistic kinetic gases as direct sources of gravity