Notes on the Sagnac effect in general relativity

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Notes on the Sagnac effect in general relativity

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The Sagnac effect can be described as the difference in travel time between two photons traveling along the same path in opposite directions. In this paper we explore the consequences of this characterisation in the context of General Relativity. We derive a general expression for this time difference in an arbitrary space-time for arbitrary paths. In general, this formula is not very useful since it involves solving a differential equation along the path. However, we also present special cas...

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Research paper

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Article

Date created

2018-11-01

Creator

Frauendiener, Jörg

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/25606

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Astronomy / Astrophysics and Cosmology / Classical and Quantum Gravitation / Differential Geometry / Mathematical and Computational Physics / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Quantum Physics / Relativity Theory / Research Article / Theoretical

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