Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-05-28
Class.Quant.Grav. 21 (2004) 4123-4146
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
19 pages, Revtex4. Some misprints removed. Final version
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/21/17/007
Local simultaneity conventions are mathematically represented by connections on the bundle of timelike curves that defines the frame. Those simultaneity conventions having an holonomy proportional to the Riemann tensor have a special interest since they exhibit a good global behavior in the weak field limit. By requiring that the simultaneity convention depends on the the acceleration, vorticity vector and the angle between them we are able to restrict considerably the allowed simultaneity conventions. In particular, we focus our study on the simplest among the allowed conventions. It should be preferred over Einstein's in flat spacetime and in general if the tidal force between neighboring particles is weaker than the centrifugal force. It reduces to the Einstein convention if the vectorial product between the acceleration and the vorticity vector vanishes. We finally show how to use this convention in practice.
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