MCMP – Philosophy of Physics

The Gravity-Inertia split in Newtonian and Relativistic Contexts


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Eleanor Knox (London) gives a talk in the colloquium "On the Split Between Gravity and Inertia in Different Spacetime Theories" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "The Gravity-Inertia split in Newtonian and Relativistic Contexts". Abstract: Relative to Newton-Cartan theory, Newtonian gravitation involves the split- ting of a single curved connection into gravitational and inertial parts. I examine the prospects for imposing an analogous division of the connection in general relativity. It’s well-known one cannot split the Levi-Civita connection in quite the same way as one does the Newton-Cartan connection, into a symmetric connection and gravitational field. However, it is possible to divide the Levi-Civita connection into a non-symmetric connection and a part that has sometimes been held (in Teleparallel theories) to represent the gravitational field. I’ll argue that non-symmetric connections are not candi- dates for representing full inertial structure, and hence that general relativity unites the gravitational and inertial field in a particularly profound sense.
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