How to Recover Spacetime Structure from Privileged Coordinates

2024/08/20 by Henrique Gomes, Gomes, Henrique, Tushar Menon +5 · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.10674

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Abstract

We show that the geometric structure of an arbitrary relativistic spacetime can be determined by the transformation groups associated with a collection of privileged coordinate systems.

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