Inertia as the ``Threshold of Elasticity'' of Quantum States

1997/06/18 by Peter Leifer
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc

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published as Found.Phys.Lett. 11 (1998) 233-249 · 14 pages, LaTeX, submitted for publication

arxiv created 1997/06/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

A quantum mechanism of the inertia generation has been proposed. The threshold of the parametric instability of ``goemetric'' Goldstone modes is treated as a rest mass.

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