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The Einstein-Varicak Correspondence on Relativistic Rigid Rotation

History and Philosophy of Physics 2016-11-15 v1

Abstract

The historical significance of the problem of relativistic rigid rotation is reviewed in light of recently published correspondence between Einstein and the mathematician Vladimir Varicak from the years 1909 to 1913.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0704.0962,
  title  = {The Einstein-Varicak Correspondence on Relativistic Rigid Rotation},
  author = {Tilman Sauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0962},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages; to appear in Proceedings of the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting