3 papers
gr-qc2002
Ephemeral point-events: is there a last remnant of physical objectivity?
Massimo Pauri, Michele Vallisneri
For the past two decades, Einstein's Hole Argument (which deals with the apparent indeterminateness of general relativity due to the general covariance of the field equations) and…
gr-qc2000
Marzke-Wheeler coordinates for accelerated observers in special relativity
Massimo Pauri, Michele Vallisneri
In special relativity, the definition of coordinate systems adapted to generic accelerated observers is a long-standing problem, which has found unequivocal solutions only for the…
gr-qc1999
Classical roots of the Unruh and Hawking effects
Massimo Pauri, Michele Vallisneri
Although the Unruh and Hawking phenomena are commonly linked to field quantization in "accelerated" coordinates or in curved spacetimes, we argue that they are deeply rooted at the…