Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?

It has recently been shown within a formal axiomatic framework using a definition of four-momentum based on the Stückelberg-Feynman-Sudarshan-Recami ''switching principle'' that Einstein's relativistic dynamics is logically consistent with the existence of interacting faster...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2014
Hauptverfasser: Madarász, J.X., Stannett, M., Székely, G.
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Veröffentlicht: Інститут математики НАН України 2014
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Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase? / J.X. Madarász, M. Stannett, G. Székely // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2014. — Т. 10. — Бібліогр.: 35 назв. — англ.
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https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/146852
It has recently been shown within a formal axiomatic framework using a definition of four-momentum based on the Stückelberg-Feynman-Sudarshan-Recami ''switching principle'' that Einstein's relativistic dynamics is logically consistent with the existence of interacting faster-than-light inertial particles. Our results here show, using only basic natural assumptions on dynamics, that this definition is the only possible way to get a consistent theory of such particles moving within the geometry of Minkowskian spacetime. We present a strictly formal proof from a streamlined axiom system that given any slow or fast inertial particle, all inertial observers agree on the value of m⋅√|1−v²|, where m is the particle's relativistic mass and v its speed. This confirms formally the widely held belief that the relativistic mass and momentum of a positive-mass faster-than-light particle must decrease as its speed increases.
This research is supported under the Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme (ref. IE110369) and by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund for basic research grants No. T81188 and No. PD84093, as well as by a Bolyai grant for J.X. Madar´asz.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?
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Madarász, J.X.
Stannett, M.
Székely, G.
title_short Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?
title_full Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?
title_fullStr Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?
title_full_unstemmed Why Do the Relativistic Masses and Momenta of Faster-than-Light Particles Decrease as their Speeds Increase?
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