Real null coframes in general relativity and GPS type coordinates

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作者
Blagojevic, M [1 ]
Garecki, J [1 ]
Hehl, FW [1 ]
Obukhov, YN [1 ]
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[1] Univ Cologne, Inst Theoret Phys, D-50923 Cologne, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevD.65.044018
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Some time ago, Finkelstein defined a "symmetric" null frame with four real null vectors. We discuss this Finkelstein frame and show that a similarly defined real null coframe is closely related to the GPS type coordinates recently introduced by Rovelli.
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