%0 Journal Article %T Some Characterizations of Rectifying Spacelike Curves in the Minkowski Space-Time %A Ahmad T. Ali %A Mehmet Onder %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X In this paper, we define a rectifying spacelike curve in the Minkowski space-time $E_1^4$ as a curve whose position vector always lies in orthogonal complement $N^{\bot}$ of its principal normal vector field $N$. In particular, we study the rectifying spacelike curves in $E_1^4$ and characterize such curves in terms of their curvature functions. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0655v1