Published December 1984
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Journal article
Constraints on the nature of inertial motion arising from the universality of free fall and the conformal causal structure of space-time
Creators
- 1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
Description
According to the principle of the universality of free fall, the motions of all neutral monopole particles are governed by one common path structure. This principle does not, however, require the path structure to be geodesic; that is, the path structure need not be a projective structure. It is shown that any equation of motion structure (either a curve or a path structure) that has sufficient microisotropy to be compatible with the conformal causal structure of space-time must be geodesic and must be unique. Hence, the empirically well-supported principles of conformal causality and of the universality of free fall together require the existence of a unique Weyl structure on space-time
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.)
- Journal Volume
- 25
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Series
- J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.).
- Journal Page Range
- 3513-3526
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 16055221
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CAUSALITY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEODESICS; GEODESY; GEOMETRY; ISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MOMENT OF INERTIA; MONOPOLES; MOTION; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; RELATIVITY THEORY; SPACE-TIME; SPACE-TIME MODEL; WEYL UNIFIED THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- CLUSTER EMISSION MODEL; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MULTIPERIPHERAL MODEL; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PERIPHERAL MODELS; SPACE; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES