scholarly journals From Euclidean to Lorentzian general relativity: The real way

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 1492-1499 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fernando Barbero G.
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According to Klein’s Erlanger programme, one may (indirectly) specify a geometry by giving a group action. Conversely, given a group action, one may ask for the corresponding geometry. Recently, I showed that the real asymptotic symmetry groups of general relativity (in any signature) have natural ‘projective’ classical actions on suitable ‘Radon transform’ spaces of affine 3-planes in flat 4-space. In this paper, I give concrete models for these groups and actions. Also, for the ‘atomic’ cases, I give geometric structures for the spaces of affine 3-planes for which the given actions are the automorphism group.


Author(s):  
MARIA TERESA CROSTA ◽  
DANIELE GARDIOL ◽  
MARIO G. LATTANZI ◽  
ROBERTO MORBIDELLI
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2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S248) ◽  
pp. 395-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Crosta ◽  
D. Gardiol ◽  
M. G. Lattanzi ◽  
R. Morbidelli

AbstractThe ESA astrometric mission Gaia will be able to put to test General Relativity thanks to differential astrometric measurements. The differential experiment, GAREX, implemented in the form of repeated Eddington-like measurement, aims at measuring the quadrupole light bending due to an oblate planet by comparing the evolution of relative distances in stellar fields in the vicinity of it. Simulations which utilize (i) selected fields extracted from the GSCII data base, (ii) a realistic error model as function of the star's magnitude and distance from Jupiter's edge, show the real best scenarios and how to improve the Gaia ability to detect this relativistic effect.


1952 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 423 ◽  
Author(s):  
NW Taylor

It is shown how Maxwell's electromagnetic equations in General Relativity may be expressed in the form of a single four-vector density equation, in which the field tensor has only three distinct complex components. The number of equations is reduced, but all the usual classical formulae may be obtained by separating the real and imaginary parts.


2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1727-1744 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Pons ◽  
D. C. Salisbury ◽  
L. C. Shepley

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Supergravity is a remarkable theory combining supersymmetry and general relativity. While the theory has many developers from across the globe, we wish to address the question who were the real originators of this fantastic idea.


1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 2383-2384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Rosen

For the quantum theory of general relativity in the real physical universe with radius of about 1028 cm, the order-of-magnitude analysis in this work leads to a fundamental and characteristic metrical disturbance, with a size of about 10−12 cm. It is possible that such a characteristic metrical disturbance (and the considerable amount of associated gravitational energy) may play an important role in elementary particle structure.


1989 ◽  
Vol 04 (20) ◽  
pp. 5527-5538 ◽  
Author(s):  
INGEMAR BENGTSSON

Space-time decomposition of the Hilbert-Palatini action, written in a form which admits degenerate metrics, is considered. Simple numerology shows why D = 3 and 4 are singled out as admitting a simple phase space. The canonical structure of the degenerate sector turns out to be awkward. However, the real degenerate metrics obtained as solutions are the same as those that occur in Ashtekar's formulation of complex general relativity. An exact solution of Ashtekar's equations, with degenerate metric, shows that the manifestly four-dimensional form of the action, and its 3 + 1 form, are not quite equivalent.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr ◽  
Poul H. Damgaard ◽  
Ludovic Planté ◽  
Pierre Vanhove

Abstract We compute the scattering amplitude for classical black-hole scattering to third order in the Post-Minkowskian expansion, keeping all terms needed to derive the scattering angle to that order from the eikonal formalism. Our results confirm a conjectured relation between the real and imaginary parts of the amplitude by Di Vecchia, Heissenberg, Russo, and Veneziano, and are in agreement with a recent computation by Damour based on radiation reaction in general relativity.


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