Mach's Principle: Exact Frame-Dragging by Energy Currents in the Universe

2008/06/12 by Schmid, Christoph
#Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0806.2085

Abstract

We show that the dragging of axis directions of local inertial frames by a weighted average of the energy currents in the universe (Mach's principle) is exact for all linear perturbations of all Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes and for all types of matter.

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