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Gordon Metric Revisited

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

We show that Gordon metric belongs to a larger class of geometries, which are responsible to describe the paths of accelerated bodies in moving dielectrics as geodesics in a metric q^μν\hat q_{\mu\nu} different from the background one. This map depends only on the background metric and on the motion of the bodies under consideration. As a consequence, this method describes a more general property that concerns the elimination of any kind of force acting on bodies by a suitable change of the substratum metric.

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@article{arxiv.1211.5053,
  title  = {Gordon Metric Revisited},
  author = {M. Novello and E. Bittencourt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.5053},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for Physical Review D

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