Discrete relativistic positioning systems

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-2660-9zbMATH Open1437.83010arXiv1805.04741OpenAlexW3004487159MaRDI QIDQ2295009FDOQ2295009

Authors: Sante Carloni, P. Pinto, Lorenzo Fatibene, M. Ferraris, Raymond G. Mclenaghan 

Publication date: 12 February 2020

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

Abstract: We discuss the design for a discrete, immediate, simple relativistic positioning system (rPS) which is potentially able of self-positioning (up to isometries) and operating without calibration or ground control assistance. The design is discussed in dimension two on spacetime (i.e. one spatial dimension plus one time dimension), in Minkowski and Schwarzschild solutions, as well as in dimension three (i.e. two spatial dimensions plus one time dimension) in Minkowski. The system works without calibration, clock synchronizations, or a priori knowledge about the motion of clocks, it is able to self-diagnose hypotheses break down (for example, if one clock temporarily becomes not-freely falling, or the gravitational field changes) and it is automatically back and operational when the assumed conditions are restored. In the Schwarzschild case, we show that the system can also best fit the gravitational mass of the source of the gravitational field and stress that no weak field assumptions are made anywhere. In particular, the rPS we propose can work in a region close to the horizon since it does not use approximations or PPN expansions. More generally, the rPS can be adapted as detectors for the gravitational field and we shall briefly discuss their role in testing different theoretical settings for gravity. In fact, rPS is a natural candidate for a canonical method to extract observables out of a gravitational theory, an activity also known as designing experiments to test gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04741

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativitynull coordinatesrelativistic positioning system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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