Minkowski metric

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created: 2022-02-22 14:13:02
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Let be a Minkowski spacetime. The metric assigned to is a quadratic form, called the Minkowski metric:

Where we define with :

If we have a basis:

Classification

Based on the sign of the metric of a vector, we can classify them: