Reversal in Minkowski Space
In the usual Minkowski space and in Minkowski space extended to an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions, assuming null or timelike vectors in the same time direction, the triangle inequality is reversed:
- such that and
A physical example of this inequality is the twin paradox in special relativity.
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