The characterisation of spin in Euclidean space-time

DOI10.1007/BF00252131MaRDI QIDQ1060032zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. G. Appleby, Nikos D. Kadianakis

Publication date 1983

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00252131

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean space-timeframe-independent concept of forceGalilei-structure on space-timeinertial observersrotating observersspin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics (70B99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Review text

This paper is concerned with using the notion of a parallel transport of space-like vectors to define a generalised concept of spin in Euclidean space-time, and to show how this concept may be used to characterise both inertial observers and rotating observers. We also consider the role played by this concept in the development of a frame-independent concept of force.

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Cites work

• Die Differentialgeometrie des Galileischen Relativitätsprinzips
• Inertial frames in classical space-time
• Lectures on the foundation of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics
• World invariant kinematics

Cited in

(5)

• A frame-independent description of the principles of classical mechanics
• Affine connections and frames of reference in classical mechanics
• The kinematics of continua and the concept of connection on classical space-time
• Spinor Representations of Positional Adapted Frame in the Euclidean 3-Space
• Spacetime without reference frames: An application to the kinetic theory

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