Rotation Effects and The Gravito-Magnetic Approach
Abstract
Gravito-electromagnetism is somewhat ubiquitous in relativity. In fact, there are many situations where the effects of gravitation can be described by formally introducing "gravito-electric" and "gravito-magnetic" fields, starting from the corresponding potentials, in analogy with the electromagnetic theory (see also A. Tartaglia's contribution to these proceedings). The "many faces of gravito-electromagnetism" are related to rotation effects in both approximated and full theory approaches. Here we show that, by using a 1+3 splitting, relativistic dynamics can be described in terms of gravito-electromagnetic (GEM) fields in full theory. On the basis of this formalism, we introduce a "gravito-magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect", which allows to interpret some rotation effects as gravito-magnetic effects. Finally, we suggest a way for measuring the angular momentum of celestial bodies by studying the gravito-magnetic effects on the propagation of electromagnetic signals.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0410039,
title = {Rotation Effects and The Gravito-Magnetic Approach},
author = {Matteo Luca Ruggiero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0410039},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
3 pages, LaTeX, 1 EPS figure; to appear in the Proceedings for the ``XVI SIGRAV Conference'' in Vietri sul Mare (SA) 13-16 September 2004, References Changed, Misprints Corrected