Lightlike simultaneity, comoving observers and distances in general relativity.
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Publication:2490736
DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2005.05.001zbMATH Open1093.53027arXivgr-qc/0501085OpenAlexW2113361468MaRDI QIDQ2490736FDOQ2490736
Authors: V. J. Bolós 
Publication date: 18 May 2006
Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We state a condition for an observer to be comoving with another observer in general relativity, based on the concept of lightlike simultaneity. Taking into account this condition, we study relative velocities, Doppler effect and light aberration. We obtain that comoving observers observe the same light ray with the same frequency and direction, and so gravitational redshift effect is a particular case of Doppler effect. We also define a distance between an observer and the events that it observes, that coincides with the known affine distance. We show that affine distance is a particular case of radar distance in the Minkowski space-time and generalizes the proper radial distance in the Schwarzschild space-time. Finally, we show that affine distance gives us a new concept of distance in Robertson-Walker space-times, according to Hubble law.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0501085
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