Are Newtonian gravitation and geometrized Newtonian gravitation theoretically equivalent?

DOI10.1007/S10670-015-9783-5zbMath1386.83023arXiv1411.5757OpenAlexW1821349099MaRDI QIDQ1706751

James Owen Weatherall

Publication date: 28 March 2018

Published in: Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5757

zbMATH Keywords

geometrized Newtonian gravitationNewtonian gravitationcriterion of theoretical equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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