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Teleparallel Newton--Cartan gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-04-25 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We discuss a teleparallel version of Newton--Cartan gravity. This theory arises as a formal large-speed-of-light limit of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR). Thus, it provides a geometric formulation of the Newtonian limit of TEGR, similar to standard Newton--Cartan gravity being the Newtonian limit of general relativity. We show how by a certain gauge-fixing the standard formulation of Newtonian gravity can be recovered.

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@article{arxiv.2211.11796,
  title  = {Teleparallel Newton--Cartan gravity},
  author = {Philip K. Schwartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11796},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

28+4+1 pages (main text, references, appendix), published in Classical and Quantum Gravity. v2: extended discussions, added references, corrected typos. v3: corrected typo

R2 v1 2026-06-28T06:24:40.970Z