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Minkowski inner product
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the
Minkowski inner product
with mostly-positive convention is
⟨
x
,
y
⟩
M
=
−
x
0
y
0
+
x
1
y
1
+
⋯
+
x
n
y
n
.
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Minkowski inner product
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Ciro Santilli
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Updated
2025-07-16
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This
form
is not really an
inner product
in the common modern
definition
, because it is not
positive definite
, only
a
symmetric bilinear form
.
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