On the physical meaning of Fermi coordinates

Details On the physical meaning of Fermi coordinates On the physical meaning of Fermi coordinates

1994-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9402010v2

Gen.Rel.Grav. 26 (1994) 619

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, KONS-RGKU-94/02 (Latex)

Scientific paper

10.1007/BF02108003

(Some Latex problems should be removed in this version) Fermi coordinates (FC) are supposed to be the natural extension of Cartesian coordinates for an arbitrary moving observer in curved space-time. Since their construction cannot be done on the whole space and even not in the whole past of the observer we examine which construction principles are responsible for this effect and how they may be modified. One proposal for a modification is made and applied to the observer with constant acceleration in the two and four dimensional Minkowski space. The two dimensional case has some surprising similarities to Kruskal space which generalize those found by Rindler for the outer region of Kruskal space and the Rindler wedge. In perturbational approaches the modification leads also to different predictions for certain physical systems. As an example we consider atomic interferometry and derive the deviation of the acceleration-induced phase shift from the standard result in Fermi coordinates.

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