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Special relativity (alternative formulations)
About: Special relativity (alternative formulations) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3102 publications have been published within this topic receiving 55015 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the initial segment problem for two interacting charged particles and provided an existence/uniqueness theorem for the forward extension under retarded interaction; a uniqueness theorem holds for the backward extension and also for time-symmetric interactions.
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30 May 2018
TL;DR: In this article, an informal, international group of physicists, mathematicians, and engineers, including Einstein, Poincare, Hermann Minkowski, Ebenezer Cunningham, Harry Bateman, Otto Berg, Max Laue, A A Robb, and Ludwig Silberstein, employed figures of light during the formative years of relativity theory in their discovery of the salient features of the relativistic worldview.
Abstract: Albert Einstein's bold assertion of the form-invariance of the equation of a spherical light wave with respect to inertial frames of reference (1905) became, in the space of six years, the preferred foundation of his theory of relativity Early on, however, Einstein's universal light-sphere invariance was challenged on epistemological grounds by Henri Poincare, who promoted an alternative demonstration of the foundations of relativity theory based on the notion of a light-ellipsoid Drawing in part on archival sources, this paper shows how an informal, international group of physicists, mathematicians, and engineers, including Einstein, Poincare, Hermann Minkowski, Ebenezer Cunningham, Harry Bateman, Otto Berg, Max Laue, A A Robb, and Ludwig Silberstein, employed figures of light during the formative years of relativity theory in their discovery of the salient features of the relativistic worldview
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the geometry of the Rindler space induced by hyperbolic motion in special relativity, and its applications to the calculation of the Unruh effect in flat spacetime, and to the Hawking temperature of the Schwarzschild black hole.
Abstract: We review the geometry of the Rindler space induced by hyperbolic motion in special relativity, and its applications to the calculation of the Unruh effect in flat spacetime, and to the Hawking temperature of the Schwarzschild black hole.
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