The light cone is carried to itself
NOT A NOVELTY CLAIM. This is a machine-checked formalisation, checked by the Lean 4 kernel and depending on no axiom. It is dated and citable. Prior art, where it exists, is cited below. No discovery is claimed.
Proposition
∀ e ∈ lightlike, ∀ b ∈ boosts, interval (boostT b.1 b.2 e.1 e.2) (boostX b.1 b.2 e.1 e.2) = 0Proof
By decide in spacetime.lean. Checked by the Lean kernel: it depends on no axiom.
Sources and identifiers
- Lean source · src/pair/formal/proofs/spacetime.lean
- Typeset paper · src/research/lean-theorems.tex
- Repository deposit · doi:10.5281/zenodo.21787144
- Author · ORCID 0009-0000-7312-9778
- Deposit record ·
spacetime--the_light_cone_is_carried_to_itself
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- Light is the fixed point
- Light is fixed from either side
- Rest is the identity
- Composition is symmetric
- Below c composes to below c
- The boost preserves the interval
- The reverse boost undoes the boost
- The reverse boost undoes every boost
- Sq lt
- Lt of sq
- Interval scales
- Scale positive
- Timelike invariant
- Spacelike invariant
- Null invariant
- Timelike order absolute
- Spacelike order reverses
- Spacelike simultaneous
- Velocity addition below c