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gr-qc2012★ 38 cited
Gordon Metric Revisited
M. Novello, E. Bittencourt
We show that Gordon metric belongs to a larger class of geometries, which are responsible to describe the paths of accelerated bodies in moving dielectrics as geodesics in a metric…
gr-qc2012★ 35 cited
What is the origin of the mass of the Higgs boson?
M. Novello, E. Bittencourt
The purpose of this paper is to present a unified description of mass generation mechanisms that have been investigated so far and that are called the Mach and Higgs proposals. In…
physics.gen-ph2012★ 10 cited
Dragged Metrics
M. Novello, E. Bittencourt
We show that the path of any accelerated body in an arbitrary space-time geometry can be described as geodesics in a dragged metric that depends only on the…