2006/02/28 by Bartolomé Coll, Joan Josep Ferrando, Juan Antonio Morales +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Computer vision #Coordinate system #Engineering #Geodesic #Geometry #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Mathematics #Metric (unit) #Physics #Proper time #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Realization (probability) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.084017
published as Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 084017 · 11 pages, 5 figures. v2: a brief description of the principal bibliography has been added
openalex publication_date 2006/04/17 · arxiv created 2006/05/22 · arxiv updated 2016/08/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A relativistic positioning system is a physical realization of a coordinate system consisting in four clocks in arbitrary motion broadcasting their proper times. The basic elements of the relativistic positioning systems are presented in the two-dimensional case. This simplified approach allows to explain and to analyze the properties and interest of these new systems. The positioning system defined by geodesic emitters in flat metric is developed in detail. The information that the data generated by a relativistic positioning system give on the space-time metric interval is analyzed, and the interest of these results in gravimetry is pointed out.