Newtonian gravitation in Maxwell spacetime.
This paper argues for the appropriateness of Maxwell spacetime as the minimal spacetime structure in which one may formulate a theory of Newtonian gravity. I begin by presenting an intrinsic characterization of Maxwell gravitation that, eschewing covariant derivative operators, makes use only of a s...
| Publicado en: | Studies in History & Philosophy of Science Part A Vol. 102; pp. 22 - 31 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Dec2023
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