Simultaneity, radar 4-coordinates and the 3+1 point of view about accelerated observers in special relativity

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2003-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0311058v4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

139 pages, RevTeX, final revised paper with a clarification of the interpretation of the time transfer in the ACES mission and

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After a review of the 1+3 point of view on non-inertial observers and of the problems of rotating reference frames, we underline that was is lacking in their treatment is a good global notion of simultaneity due to the restricted validity of the existing 4-coordinates associated to an accelerated observer (like the Fermi normal ones). We show that the relativistic Hamiltonian 3+1 point of view, based on a 3+1 splitting of Minkowski space-time with a foliation whose space-like leaves are both simultaneity and Cauchy surfaces, allows to find a solution to such problems, if we take into account M$\o$ller's definition of allowed 4-coordinate transformations extended to radar 4-coordinates. Rigidly rotating relativistic reference frames are shown not to exist. We give explicit foliations, with simultaneity surfaces (also space-like hyper-planes) non orthogonal to the non-inertial observer world-line, which correspond to a good notion of simultaneity for suitable (mutually balancing) translational and rotational accelerations. This allows to evaluate the simultaneity-dependent one-way speed of light and to give the 3+1 description of both the rotating disk and the Sagnac effect. It is also shown how a GPS system of spacecrafts may establish a grid of admissible radar 4-coordinates and how the ACES mission can employ a variant of this method adapted to Earth's rotation in the evaluation of the one-way time transfer to detect the deviation from Einstein convention on the synchronization of inertial clocks implied by such a notion of simultaneity. We show that in parametrized Minkowski theories all the admissible notions of simultaneity are gauge equivalent ({\it conventionality of simultaneity}) and, as an example, we describe Maxwell theory in non-inertial systems with any admissible notion of simultaneity.

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