Timeline for Is Minkowski space usually a vector space or an affine space?
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| Feb 3, 2015 at 2:10 | vote | accept | Stan Shunpike | ||
| Jan 13, 2015 at 8:19 | comment | added | Valter Moretti | Yes, I did not write it because it seemed to me obvious. An affine space is a triple made of the set of points, a vector space and a map associating pairs of points with vectors satisfying certain requirements. The scalar product can obviously be associated with the vector space only. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 5:04 | comment | added | Marc van Leeuwen | Scalar products are defined on vector spaces, so you should say the tangent space (or the space of translations of the affine space, which amounts to the same) is equipped with a Lorentzian scalar product. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 8:57 | history | answered | Valter Moretti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |