Gyrations: the missing link between classical mechanics with its underlying Euclidean geometry and relativistic mechanics with its underlying hyperbolic geometry

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-28821-0_18zbMATH Open1319.83005arXiv1302.5678OpenAlexW1777046238MaRDI QIDQ5261072FDOQ5261072

Authors: Abraham A. Ungar 

Publication date: 1 July 2015

Published in: Essays in Mathematics and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Being neither commutative nor associative, Einstein velocity addition of relativistically admissible velocities gives rise to gyrations. Gyrations, in turn, measure the extent to which Einstein addition deviates from commutativity and from associativity. Gyrations are geometric automorphisms abstracted from the relativistic mechanical effect known as Thomas precession.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5678

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zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean geometryhyperbolic geometryrelativistic mechanicsThomas precessiongyrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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