Geometry of free fall and simultaneity

DOI10.1063/1.528279MaRDI QIDQ3830164zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Ewen, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

Publication date 1989

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528279

zbMATH Keywords

classical gravitationmeasurements of lengthNewton-Cartan space-timeparallel transportworld lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70F99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

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