Ja n 20 09 Semi - indefinite - inner - product and generalized Minkowski spaces
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In this paper we parallelly build up the theories of normed linear spaces and of linear spaces with indefinite metric, called also Minkowski spaces for finite dimensions in the literature. In the first part of this paper we collect the common properties of the semi-and indefinite-inner-products and define the semi-indefinite-inner-product and the corresponding structure, the semi-indefinite-inner-product space. We give a generalized concept of Minkowski space embedded in a semi-indefinite-inner-product space using the concept of a new product, that contains the classical cases as special ones. In the second part of this paper we investigate the real, finite dimensional generalized Minkowski space and its sphere of radius i. We prove that it can be regarded as a so-called Minkowski-Finsler space and if it is homogeneous one with respect to linear isometries, then the Minkowski-Finsler distance its points can be determined by the Minkowski-product.
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