The twin paradox and space topology
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Publication:3147342
DOI10.1088/0143-0807/23/3/306zbMATH Open1004.83004arXivphysics/0006039OpenAlexW1998307493MaRDI QIDQ3147342FDOQ3147342
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Patrick Peter, Roland Lehoucq
Publication date: 13 February 2003
Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: If space is compact, then a traveller twin can leave Earth, travel back home without changing direction and find her sedentary twin older than herself. We show that the asymmetry between their spacetime trajectories lies in a topological invariant of their spatial geodesics, namely the homotopy class. This illustrates how the spacetime symmetry invariance group, although valid {it locally}, is broken down {it globally} as soon as some points of space are identified. As a consequence, any non--trivial space topology defines preferred inertial frames along which the proper time is longer than along any other one.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0006039
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