Constraints on the nature of inertial motion arising from the universality of free fall and the conformal causal structure of space-time

DOI10.1063/1.526122MaRDI QIDQ3218762zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Alan Coleman, Herbert Korte

Publication date 1984

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.526122

zbMATH Keywords

equivalence principlefree particlemicrosymmetry groupprojective structuresspace-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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