Path structures on manifolds

DOI10.1063/1.523175MaRDI QIDQ4146211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Ehlers, Egon Köhler

Publication date 1977

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

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-5EBC-B

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20)

Cites work

• Causal structure in space-time
• The Riemannian Structure of Space-Time as a Consequence of a Measurement Method

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(15)

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• Characterization of free fall paths by a global or local Desargues property
• The conformal structure of space-time in a constructive axiomatics based on elements of quantum mechanics
• Remarks concerning the notion of free fall in axiomatic space-time theory
• Does cosmological expansion affect local physics?
• Any physical, monopole equation of motion structure uniquely determines a projective inertial structure and an (n−1)-force
• All directing fields that are polynomial in the (n−1) velocity are geodesic
• Jet bundles and path structures
• Laue's theorem revisited: energy-momentum tensors, symmetries, and the habitat of globally conserved quantities
• A geometric formulation of the equivalence principle
• The physical foundations for the geometric structure of relativistic theories of gravitation: from general relativity to extended theories of gravity through Ehlers-Pirani-Schild approach
• Axiomatic Thinking in Physics—Essence or Useless Ornament?
• The rich structure of Minkowski space
• Harmonic analysis of directing fields
• A characterisation of the Weylian structure of space-time by means of low velocity tests

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