Extending the Lorentz transformation by characteristic coordinatesThe problem considered is that of rectilinear motion with variable velocity. The paper gives, by an elementary construction, a system of coordinates which is conformal in a restricted region near the axis of the motion. In such coordinates the velocity of light remains invariant even for observers moving with variable velocity. By a particular choice of the scale relation the restricted conformal transformations can be made to reduce to the Lorentz transformation everywhere in the case of constant velocity and locally in the case of variable velocity.
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19760012026
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Legacy CDMS
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Other
Authors
Jones, R. T. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)