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We consider the motion of a particle described by an action that is a functional of the Frenet-Serret [FS] curvatures associated with the embedding of its worldline in Minkowski space. We develop a theory of deformations tailored to the FS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Arreaga , R. Capovilla , J. Guven

In this note, we propose that an object moving with proper constant acceleration, i.e., a Rindler observer experiences a sublimation (or evaporation) process. In this first proposal, we do not consider the backreaction due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 J. A. Rosabal

We determine the conjugacy classes of the Poincar\'e group $\mathrm{ISO}^+(n,1)$ and apply this to classify the stationary trajectories of Minkowski spacetimes in terms of timelike Killing vectors. Stationary trajectories are the orbits of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Cameron R. D. Bunney

I provide a prescription to define space, at a given moment, for an arbitrary observer in an arbitrary (sufficiently regular) curved space-time. This prescription, based on synchronicity (simultaneity) arguments, defines a foliation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lachièze-Rey

We motivate and construct a mathematical theory for the separation of space and time in general relativity. The formalism only requires a single observer and an optional choice of reference frame at each instant. As the splitting is done…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Maik Reddiger

The acceleration transformations form a 4-parameter Abelian subgroup of the conformal group of Minkowski spacetime. The passive interpretation of acceleration transformations leads to a congruence of uniformly accelerated observers in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-05 Bahram Mashhoon

We study the Lie symmetries of non-relativistic and relativistic higher order constant motions, in $d$ spatial dimensions, like constant acceleration, constant rate-of-change -of-acceleration (constant jerk), and so on. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Carles Batlle , Joaquim Gomis , Sourya Ray , Jorge Zanelli

We discuss some aspects of the differential geometry of curves in Minkowski space. We establish the Serret-Frenet equations in Minkowski space and use them to give a very simple proof of the fundamental theorem of curves in Minkowski space.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. B. Formiga , C. Romero

The standard relativistic theory of accelerated reference frames in Minkowski spacetime is described. The measurements of accelerated observers are considered and the limitations of the standard theory, based on the hypothesis of locality,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bahram Mashhoon

An uniformly accelerated observer can build his proper system of coordinates in a delimited sector of the flat Minkowski spacetime. The properties of the position and time coordinate lines for such an observer are studied and compared with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Claude Semay

We adapt the axioms of the quantum mechanics to the quantum Minkowski space-time coordinates and their transformations under the quantum Lorentz group to show how we can formulate the noncommutative special relativity and its quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lagraa

An explicit Wigner formulation of Minkowski particle states for non-inertial observers is unknown. Here, we derive a general prescription to compute the characteristic function for Minkowski-Fock states in accelerated frames. For the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-06 Riccardo Falcone , Claudio Conti

For over a century Minkowskian spacetime has dominated discussions of space contraction and time dilation within special relativity. Brown and Pooley have called into question both the assumptions of Minkowski and the effects his presumed…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Paul A. Klevgard

A local observer can measure only the values of fields at the point of his own position. By exploring the coordinate transformation between two Fermi frames, it is shown that two observers, having the same instantaneous position and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Nikolic

We aim to investigate the theory of Lorentz violation with an invariant minimum speed so-called Symmetrical Special Relativity (SSR) from the viewpoint of its metric. Thus we should explore the nature of SSR-metric in order to understand…

Two principal definitions of a 3-velocity assigned to a test particle following timelike trajectories in stationary spacetimes are introduced and analyzed systematically. These definitions are based on the $1+3$ (threading) and $3+1$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-14 R. Gharechahi , M. Nouri-Zonoz , A. Tavanfar

We reassess the problem of symmetry restoration induced by observers' acceleration within the context of interacting quantum field theories in Minkowski spacetime. We argue that the imposition of a frame-independent renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Domenico Giuseppe Salluce , Marco Pasini , Antonino Flachi , Antonio Pittelli , Stefano Ansoldi

The main topic of this paper is to show that in the 3-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, the torsion of a null curve is equal to the Schwarzian derivative of a certain function appearing in a description of the curve. As applications, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Zbigniew Olszak

We describe the variation of the number $N(t)$ of spatial critical points of smooth curves (defined as a scalar distance $r$ from a fixed origin $O$) evolving under curvature-driven flows. In the latter, the speed $v$ in the direction of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-23 G. Domokos

Minkowski space serves as a framework for the theoretical constructions that deal with manifestations of relativistic effects in physical phenomena. But neither Minkowski himself nor the subsequent developers of the relativity theory have…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Serge Wagner