Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: We show that the Gordon metric belongs to a larger class of geometries, which are responsible to describe the paths of accelerated bodies in moving dielectrics as geodesics in a metric ${\stackrel{^}{q}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu}}$ different from the background one. This map depends only on the background metric and on the motion of the bodies under consideration. As a consequence, this method describes a more general property that concerns the elimination of any kind of force acting on bodies by a suitable change of the substratum metric.
Authors: M. Novello, E. Bittencourt
Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2062408337