Space-Time Exchange Invariance: Special Relativity as a Symmetry Principle

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2000-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0012011v2

Am. J. Phys. 69 (2001) 569-575.

Physics

Classical Physics

16 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1119/1.1344165

Special relativity is reformulated as a symmetry property of space-time: Space-Time Exchange Invariance. The additional hypothesis of spatial homogeneity is then sufficient to derive the Lorentz transformation without reference to the traditional form of the Principle of Special Relativity. The kinematical version of the latter is shown to be a consequence of the Lorentz transformation. As a dynamical application, the laws of electrodynamics and magnetodynamics are derived from those of electrostatics and magnetostatics respectively. The 4-vector nature of the electromagnetic potential plays a crucial role in the last two derivations.

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