From emission to inertial coordinates: Splitting of the solution relatively to an inertial observer
- Juan A. Morales-Lladosa
Dept. of Astronomia i AstrofĂsica, Universitat de València
This contribution mainly concerns Relativistic Positioning Systems (RPS) in the Minkowski space-time. Special attention is focussed on revisiting the space-time location problem, and the underlying bifurcation problem (when, for a given set of standard data, two possible locations are in principle possible for a user of the system). Covariant quantities (vectors and bivectors) associated with RPS are analyzed relatively to an inertial observer by splitting them in their spatial and temporal components. The location of a user in inertial coordinates from a standard set of emission data is solved in the underlying 3+1 formalism.
In collaboration with B. Coll and J. J. Ferrando