Velocities of distant objects in General Relativity revisited
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-06-03 v2
Abstract
We consider two most popular definitions of velocities of remote objects in General Relativity. Our work has two motivations. From a research point of view, we generalize the formula connecting these two velocities in FRW metrics found by Chodorowski to arbitrary synchronous spherically symmetric metrics. From a methodological point of view, our goal is to outline certain counter-intuitive properties of the definitions in question, which would allow to use them when it is reasonable and to avoid incorrect statements, based on inappropriate use of intuition.
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@article{arxiv.1901.03602,
title = {Velocities of distant objects in General Relativity revisited},
author = {Elena Emtsova and Alexey Toporensky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03602},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
13 pages, no figures, small improvement of the text