- In
special and
general relativity, a
light cone (or "null cone") is the path that a
flash of light,
emanating from a
single event (localized to a single...
- p. 179
Carroll 2004, Ch. 5.4 and 7.3 "Singularities and
Black Holes >
Lightcones and
Causal Structure". plato.stanford.edu.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
- literature, the Kruskal–Szekeres
coordinates sometimes also
appear in
their lightcone variant: U = T − X {\displaystyle U=T-X} V = T + X , {\displaystyle V=T+X...
- LLC. pp. 155–156. ISBN 9780593186589. Curiel, Erik; Bokulich, Peter. "
Lightcones and
Causal Structure".
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics...
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conformal structure,
since it is the
latter – as
determined by the lay of the
lightcones – that
determines the
trajectories of
lightlike geodesics, and
hence their...
- is privileged, we can
always find a
local coordinate system in
which lightcones are
inclined at 45
degrees to the time axis. See also for
example Eddington-Finkelstein...
-
lightcone coordinates d s 2 = 2 d x + d x − − ( d x i ) 2 . {\displaystyle ds^{2}=2dx^{+}dx^{-}-(dx^{i})^{2}.}
Although the
spectrum of the
lightcone...
-
event horizon: R > r s / 4 {\displaystyle R>r_{\text{s}}/4}
isotropic lightcones on
constant time
slices Kruskal–Szekeres
coordinates 4 r s 3 r e − r r...
- ****ure
positions lie
closer to the star. This
appears as a
slightly tilted lightcone on the
corresponding spacetime diagram. An
object in free fall in this...
-
group decomposes into
separate diffeomorphisms of the
forward and back
lightcones.
Diffeomorphism invariance of the
worldsheet implies additionally that...
