2 papers
physics.hist-ph2004
Arago (1810): the first experimental result against the ether
Rafael Ferraro, Daniel M. Sforza
95 years before Special Relativity was born, Arago attempted to detect the absolute motion of the Earth by measuring the deflection of starlight passing through a prism fixed to th…
gr-qc2000
Quantization of Generally Covariant Systems
Daniel M. Sforza
Finite dimensional models that mimic the constraint structure of Einstein's General Relativity are quantized in the framework of BRST and Dirac's canonical formalisms. The first sy…