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A free system, considered to be a comparisonsystem, allows for the notion of objective existence andinertial frame. Transformations connecting inertialframes are shown to be either Lorentz or generalizedGalilei.
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Ritis, R.D., Marmo, G. & Preziosi, B. A New Look at Relativity Transformations. General Relativity and Gravitation 31, 1501–1517 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026778303509
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