Reconciliation between the Mach principle and the principle of equality of the inertial and gravitational masses

A study of kinematics of a 2-body system is used to show that the Mach principle, previously rejected by general relativity, can still serve as an alternative to the concept of absolute space, if one assumes that the background of distant stars determines both the inertial and the gravitational masses of a body.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 10–13, June, 1990.