Published June 7, 2002 | Version v1
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'Proper acceleration' of a null geodesic in curved spacetime

Creators

  • 1. School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing (China)

Description

Given a null geodesic in Minkowski spacetime, there exists a one-parameter family of observers in 'hyperbolic' motion which approaches the null geodesic as the parameter x0 approaches zero. It is well known that the proper acceleration of the observers in the family approaches infinity as their world line approaches the null geodesic. The main purpose of this paper is to generalize this result to future-complete null geodesics in curved spacetimes

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/2777/q21102.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/2777/q21102.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
PII
S0264-9381(02)30112-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 2777-2781
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34031543
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CURVILINEAR COORDINATES; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GEODESICS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; SPACE-TIME MODEL
Descriptors DEC
CLUSTER EMISSION MODEL; COORDINATES; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MULTIPERIPHERAL MODEL; PARTICLE MODELS; PERIPHERAL MODELS; SPACE