Republication of: The geometry of free fall and light propagation |
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Authors: | Jürgen Ehlers Felix A. E. Pirani Alfred Schild |
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Affiliation: | 1.Potsdam,Germany;2.London,UK;3.Austin,USA |
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Abstract: | This is a reprinting of the paper by Jürgen Ehlers, Felix Pirani and Alfred Schild, first published in 1972 in a separate volume containing articles written in hounour of J. L. Synge. The original book is long out of print and almost forgotten by today. The authors present a method of deriving the Lorentzian geometry from compatible conformal and projective structures on a four dimensional manifold. The paper has been selected by the Editors of General Relativity and Gravitation for re-publication in the Golden Oldies series of the journal. This republication is accompanied by an editorial note written by Andrzej Trautman. |
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