English

General Transformation Formulas for Fermi-Walker Coordinates

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v4

Abstract

We calculate the transformation and inverse transformation, in the form of Taylor expansions, from arbitrary coordinates to Fermi-Walker coordinates in tubular neighborhoods of arbitrary timelike paths for general spacetimes. Explicit formulas for coefficients and the Jacobian matrix are given.

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@article{arxiv.0712.3838,
  title  = {General Transformation Formulas for Fermi-Walker Coordinates},
  author = {David Klein and Peter Collas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3838},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages. Corrected typos in the last two equations. Accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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