Malament, David B. (2000) A No-Go Theorem About Rotation in Relativity Theory. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Within the framework of general relativity, in some cases at least, it is a delicate and interesting question just what it means to say that an extended body is or is not "rotating". It is so for two reasons. First, one can easily think of different criteria of rotation. Though they agree if the background spacetime structure is sufficiently simple, they do not do so in general. Second, none of the criteria fully answers to our classical intuitions. Each one exhibits some feature or other that violates those intuitions in a significant and interesting way. The principal goal of the paper is to make the second claim precise in the form of a modest no-go theorem.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Malament, David B.
Keywords:	relativity, rotation, no-go
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	David B. Malament
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2001
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:10
Item ID:	101
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	November 2000
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/101

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