Gravitational Thomas Precession and the Perihelion Advance of Mercury
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Gravitational Thomas Precession (GTP) is the name given to Thomas Precession when the acceleration is caused by a gravitational force field. The GTP gives a negative contribution of 7.163 arcsec/century for the anomalous perihelion advance of Mercury's orbit. This effect seems to be of some concern for the General Relativity.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0306018,
title = {Gravitational Thomas Precession and the Perihelion Advance of Mercury},
author = {Harihar Behera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0306018},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages