Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/8/a/ii/solution

For increasing parameter along a future-directed timelike curve, the elapsed proper time is
or when coordinate time is the parameter. A Lorentz transformation satisfies , so replacing by leaves the expression under the square root unchanged. Hence the integral is invariant. A monotone change of path parameter also leaves it unchanged by the ordinary substitution rule.

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