Establishing the Riemannian structure of space-time by means of light rays and free matter waves

DOI10.1063/1.529181MaRDI QIDQ3987337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jürgen Audretsch, C. Lämmerzahl

Publication date 28 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.529181

zbMATH Keywords

classical limitconformal structureRiemann space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Hamilton's principle (70H25) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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• An axiomatic basis of space-time theory. I: Construction of a causal space with coordinates
• Constructive axiomatic approach to spacetime torsion
• Reasons for a physical field to obey linear partial differential equations
• Wave fields in Weyl spaces and conditions for the existence of a preferred pseudo-Riemannian structure

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