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Rotation Effects and The Gravito-Magnetic Approach

Abstract

Gravito-electromagnetism is somewhat ubiquitous in relativity. In fact, there are many situations where the effects of gravitation can be described by formally introducing "gravito-electric" and "gravito-magnetic" fields, starting from the corresponding potentials, in analogy with the electromagnetic theory (see also A. Tartaglia's contribution to these proceedings). The "many faces of gravito-electromagnetism" are related to rotation effects in both approximated and full theory approaches. Here we show that, by using a 1+3 splitting, relativistic dynamics can be described in terms of gravito-electromagnetic (GEM) fields in full theory. On the basis of this formalism, we introduce a "gravito-magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect", which allows to interpret some rotation effects as gravito-magnetic effects. Finally, we suggest a way for measuring the angular momentum of celestial bodies by studying the gravito-magnetic effects on the propagation of electromagnetic signals.

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Matteo Luca Ruggiero. 2004-10-18. Rotation Effects and The Gravito-Magnetic Approach. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1891567

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