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Flat four-dimensional spacetime equipped with the Lorentzian metric used by special relativity.
Its invariant interval and light-cone causal structure are preserved by Poincaré transformations.
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Minkowski spacetime is an affine space modeled on a Lorentzian vector space, not canonically a vector space with preferred origin.
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Minkowski spacetime is the flat, nongravitating special case of relativistic spacetime.
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Minkowski spacetime is the standard flat spacetime geometry of special relativity.
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Inertial frames are related by Poincaré transformations in Minkowski spacetime.
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