Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ia Paper 4 10C a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
With signature , the four-momenta areIn the rest frame of a future timelike , one has and , so ; Lorentz invariance proves the assertion in every frame.
The impossibility of photon decay into two massive particles follows because a photon has squared four-momentum zero. If it decayed into an electron and positron, conservation would givea contradiction.