A geometric relativistic dynamics under any conservative force

DOI10.1142/S0219887819500154MaRDI QIDQ4615130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yaakov Friedman, Tzvi Scarr, J. Steiner

Publication date 1 February 2019

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08608

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlerelativistic dynamicsgeometric dynamicstests of general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Kinematics of a particle (70B05) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

Abstract: Riemann's principle "force equals geometry" provided the basis for Einstein's General Relativity - the geometric theory of gravitation. In this paper, we follow this principle to derive the dynamics for any static, conservative force. The geometry of spacetime of a moving object is described by a metric obtained from the potential of the force field acting on it. We introduce a generalization of Newton's First Law - the emph{Generalized Principle of Inertia} stating that: emph{An inanimate object moves inertially, that is, with constant velocity, in emph{its own} spacetime whose geometry is determined by the forces affecting it}. Classical Newtonian dynamics is treated within this framework, using a properly defined emph{Newtonian metric} with respect to an inertial lab frame. We reveal a physical deficiency of this metric (responsible for the inability of Newtonian dynamics to account for relativistic behavior), and remove it. The dynamics defined by the corrected Newtonian metric leads to a new emph{Relativistic Newtonian Dynamics} for both massive objects and massless particles moving in any static, conservative force field, not necessarily gravitational. This dynamics reduces in the weak field, low velocity limit to classical Newtonian dynamics and also exactly reproduces the classical tests of General Relativity, as well as the post-Keplerian precession of binaries.

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