Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1999-07-28
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A15 (2000) 679-696
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
17 pages, LaTeX, submitted for publication in Intern. J. of Math. Phys., Nonlinear Phenomena and Group Theory
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X00000343
Transports preserving the angle between two contravariant vector fields but changing their lengths proportional to their own lengths are introduced as `conformal' transports and investigated over spaces with one affine connection and metric. They are more general than the Fermi-Walker transports. In an analogous way as in the case of Fermi-Walker transports a conformal covariant differential operator and its conformal derivative are defined and considered over spaces with one affine connection and metric. Different special types of conformal transports are determined inducing also Fermi-Walker transports for orthogonal vector fields as special cases. Conditions under which the length of a non-null contravariant vector field could swing as a homogeneous harmonic oscillator are established. The results obtained regardless of any concrete field (gravitational) theory could have direct applications in such types of theories. PACS numbers: 04.90.+e; 04.50.+h; 12.10.Gq; 02.40.Vh
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