Simultaneity, conventialism, general covariance, and the special theory of relativity

DOI10.1007/BF00760649zbMath0615.53062MaRDI QIDQ1820453

Peter Havas

Publication date: 1987

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

special theory of relativitysimultaneity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

Related Items (9)

GENERALIZED RADAR 4-COORDINATES AND EQUAL-TIME CAUCHY SURFACES FOR ARBITRARY ACCELERATED OBSERVERS ⋮ Hidden Lorentz symmetry of the Hořava-Lifshitz gravity ⋮ The nontriviality of trivial general covariance: how electrons restrict `time' coordinates, spinors (almost) fit into tensor calculus, and \(\frac{7}{16}\) of a tetrad is surplus structure ⋮ The conventionality of simultaneity in the light of the spinor representation of the Lorentz group ⋮ A new look at relativity transformations ⋮ Spin-rotation couplings: spinning test particles and Dirac field ⋮ The rest-frame instant form of metric gravity. ⋮ Locality hypothesis and the speed of light ⋮ A new parametrization for tetrad gravity

Cites Work

• Logical and Philosophical Foundations of the Special Theory of Relativity
• Three Lectures on Relativity Theory
• Four-Dimensional Formulations of Newtonian Mechanics and Their Relation to the Special and the General Theory of Relativity
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