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Tag Archive for: congruences

Kerr Spacetime

Exploring Fermi-Walker Transport in Kerr Spacetime

March 16, 2019
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In the last two posts in this series, we developed some tools for looking at Fermi-Walker transport in Minkowski spacetime and then applied them in Schwarzschild…
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Learning Fermi-Walker Transport in Schwarzschild Spacetime

March 9, 2019
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In the first post in this series, we introduced the concepts of frame field, Fermi-Walker transport, and the "Fermi derivative" of a frame field, and developed…
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