In particular, I would like to know if the four velocity and the four acceleration are tensors.
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Are four vectors in Special Relativity considered to be tensors?
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The four velocity and four acceleration are vectors in a space-time Minkowski space and can be represented as a quadruplet $(u_0,u_1,u_2,u_3)$ and $(a_0,a_1,a_2,a_3)$ where the elements with subscripts $1-3$ represent the ordinary Euclidian vectors for velocity and acceleration, in proper time.
They are not tensors (of rank two), an example of which is the Electromagnetic Field tensor.
"Tensors" are pretty general. Scalars are (rank 0) tensors. Vectors are (rank 1) tensors, including 4 vectors. So are matrices, etc.