E Minguzzi 2007 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 66 012020 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/66/1/012020
E Minguzzi
Show affiliationsIt 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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E Minguzzi 2007 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 66 012020
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