Penrose–Carter diagram for a uniformly accelerated observer

2006/11/30 by Claude Semay
Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #physics.class-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0143-0807/28/5/011

published as Eur.J.Phys.28:877-888,2007 · 5 figures

openalex publication_date 2007/07/19 · arxiv created 2007/07/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

An uniformly accelerated observer can build his proper system of coordinates in a delimited sector of the flat Minkowski spacetime. The properties of the position and time coordinate lines for such an observer are studied and compared with the coordinate lines for an inertial observer in a Penrose-Carter diagram for this spacetime.

Citations

• Nonequivalence of a uniformly accelerating reference frame and a frame at rest in a uniform gravitational field