2002/01/31 by Edward Anderson, Julian Barbour · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Doubly special relativity #Four-force #General relativity #Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity #Mathematical physics #Numerical relativity #Physics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Special relativity #Test theories of special relativity #Theoretical physics #Theory of relativity #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/12/309
published as Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 3249-3262 · Replaced with final version accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity (14 pages, no figures)
arxiv created 2002/05/28 · openalex publication_date 2002/05/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Barbour, Foster and Ó Murchadha have recently developed a new framework, called here the 3 - space approach , for the formulation of classical bosonic dynamics. Neither time nor a locally Minkowskian structure of spacetime are presupposed. Both arise as emergent features of the world from geodesic-type dynamics on a space of three-dimensional metric–matter configurations. In fact gravity, the universal light-cone and Abelian gauge theory minimally coupled to gravity all arise naturally through a single common mechanism. It yields relativity—and more—without presupposing relativity. This paper completes the recovery of the presently known bosonic sector within the 3-space approach. We show, for a rather general ansatz, that 3-vector fields can interact among themselves only as Yang–Mills fields minimally coupled to gravity.