Fletcher, Samuel C. and Weatherall, James Owen (2022) The Local Validity of Special Relativity, Part 2: Matter Dynamics. [Preprint]
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Abstract
In this two-part essay, we distinguish several senses in which general relativity has been regarded as "locally special relativistic". In Part 1, we focused on senses in which a relativistic spacetime may be said to be "locally (approximately) Minkowskian". Here, in Part 2, we consider what it might mean to say that a matter theory is "locally special relativisitc". We isolate and evaluate three criteria in the literature and show that they are incompatible: matter theories satisfying one will generally violate others. We then consider what would happen if any of those criteria failed for a given theory.
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Keywords: | general relativity, special relativity, normal coordinates, strong equivalence principle | |||||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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Depositing User: | James Owen Weatherall | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2023 12:57 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 16 May 2023 12:57 | |||||||||
Item ID: | 22110 | |||||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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Date: | 2022 | |||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22110 |
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