Classical aspects of lightlike dimensional reduction

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/23/029zbMATH Open1117.83099arXivgr-qc/0610011OpenAlexW2049357247MaRDI QIDQ3418991FDOQ3418991

Authors: E. Minguzzi 

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Some aspects of lightlike dimensional reduction in flat spacetime are studied with emphasis to classical applications. Among them the Galilean transformation of shadows induced by inertial frame changes is studied in detail by proving that, (i) the shadow of an object has the same shape in every orthogonal-to-light screen, (ii) if two shadows are simultaneous in an orthogonal-to-light screen then they are simultaneous in any such screen. In particular, the Galilean group in 2+1 dimensions is recognized as an exact symmetry of Nature which acts on the shadows of the events instead that on the events themselves. The group theoretical approach to lightlike dimensional reduction is used to solve the reconstruction problem of a trajectory starting from its acceleration history or from its projected (shadow) trajectory. The possibility of obtaining a Galilean projected physics starting from a Poincar'e invariant physics is stressed through the example of relativistic collisions. In particular, it is shown that the projection of a relativistic collision between massless particles gives a non-relativistic collision in which the kinetic energy is conserved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0610011

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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