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  • noun mathematics A vector in four-dimensional vector space, especially one having three spatial and one temporal dimensions

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  • The expression for this action A is where where is the four-vector position of the ith particle as a function of some parameter.

    Richard P. Feynman - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • It would also spoil the Lorentz invariance by itself because the entropy density is a time component of a four-vector (am entropy current) and its nonzero

    The Reference Frame 2010

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