Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2006-11-14
J.Phys.Conf.Ser.66:012020,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Latex2e, 6 pages, 1 figure, uses psfrag. Contribution to the Proceedings of The Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE 2006), Palma d
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-6596/66/1/012020
It is well known that the Lorentzian length of a timelike curve in Minkowski spacetime is smaller than the Lorentzian length of the geodesic connecting its initial and final endpoints. The difference is known as the 'differential aging' and its calculation in terms of the proper acceleration history of the timelike curve would provide an important tool for the autonomous spacetime navigation of non-inertial observers. I give a solution in 3+1 dimensions which holds whenever the acceleration is decomposed with respect to a lightlike transported frame (lightlike transport will be defined), the analogous and more natural problem for a Fermi-Walker decomposition being still open.
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