The motion of a body in Newtonian theories

DOI10.1063/1.3556608zbMATH Open1315.83014arXiv1010.0379OpenAlexW2041166437WikidataQ125929768 ScholiaQ125929768MaRDI QIDQ5260944FDOQ5260944

Authors: James Owen Weatherall 

Publication date: 30 June 2015

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

Abstract: A theorem due to Bob Geroch and Pong Soo Jang ["Motion of a Body in General Relativity." Journal of Mathematical Physics 16(1), (1975)] provides the sense in which the geodesic principle has the status of a theorem in General Relativity (GR). Here we show that a similar theorem holds in the context of geometrized Newtonian gravitation (often called Newton-Cartan theory). It follows that in Newtonian gravitation, as in GR, inertial motion can be derived from other central principles of the theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0379

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zbMATH Keywords

Newton-Cartan theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Kinematics of a particle (70B05)

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