Constraints on the nature of inertial motion arising from the universality of free fall and the conformal causal structure of space-time
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DOI10.1063/1.526122zbMath0555.53041OpenAlexW1986780093MaRDI QIDQ3218762
Herbert Korte, Robert Alan Coleman
Publication date: 1984
Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.526122
Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)
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