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The Teleparallel Equivalent of Newton-Cartan Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-08-29 v1

Abstract

We construct a notion of teleparallelization for Newton-Cartan theory, and show that the teleparallel equivalent of this theory is Newtonian gravity; furthermore, we show that this result is consistent with teleparallelization in general relativity, and can be obtained by null-reducing the teleparallel equivalent of a five-dimensional gravitational wave solution. This work thus strengthens substantially the connections between four theories: Newton-Cartan theory, Newtonian gravitation theory, general relativity, and teleparallel gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11779,
  title  = {The Teleparallel Equivalent of Newton-Cartan Gravity},
  author = {James Read and Nicholas Teh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11779},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

7 pages, forthcoming in Classical and Quantum Gravity (letters)