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Uniform Acceleration in General Relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-02-10 v1

Abstract

We extend de la Fuente and Romero's defining equation for uniform acceleration in a general curved spacetime from linear acceleration to the full Lorentz covariant uniform acceleration. In a flat spacetime background, we have explicit solutions. We use generalized Fermi-Walker transport to parallel transport the Frenet basis along the trajectory. In flat spacetime, we obtain velocity and acceleration transformations from a uniformly accelerated system to an inertial system. We obtain the time dilation between accelerated clocks. We apply our acceleration transformations to the motion of a charged particle in a constant electromagnetic field and recover the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03067,
  title  = {Uniform Acceleration in General Relativity},
  author = {Yaakov Friedman and Tzvi Scarr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03067},
  year   = {2016}
}

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19 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1105.0492

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