On the gravitational redshift
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-11-18 v9
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is twofold - to demonstrate that in the gravitational redshift it is the frequency a photon that is constant, and to describe the mechanism responsible for the change of its wavelength.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9810030,
title = {On the gravitational redshift},
author = {Vesselin Petkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9810030},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX; As it turns out that an overlooked consequence of Einstein's elevator thought experiment - that the propagation of light in a gravitational field is anisotropic - can be rigorously derived in the framework of general relativity, the gravitational redshift is now discussed in terms of that consequence