Non-inertial frames that can mimic gravitational fields
Abstract
One version of the principle of equivalence, as originally formulated by Einstein, states that ``gravity" can be mimicked locally by going to an ``accelerated frame of reference". As highlighted by Synge, the physical content of this principle remains obscure in so far as it does not refer to the Riemann tensor , which encodes the true effects of gravity. We here give the acceleration profile of a rigid, Rindler, frame that can mimic a gravitational field corresponding to a given . The generalised deviation equation that yields this result also has Centrifugal and Coriolis terms appearing in a purely relational context, yielding a similar connection between angular velocity of rotating, rigid inertial frames and the Riemann tensor. We comment briefly on implications for Mach principle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.16229,
title = {Non-inertial frames that can mimic gravitational fields},
author = {Dawood Kothawala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16229},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
v1: 7 pages, 2 figures; v2: version accepted in PRD Letters