Time transformations in post-Newtonian Lagrangians
- 15 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 29 (12) , 2721-2725
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.29.2721
Abstract
We show that the use of time transformations in post-Newtonian Lagrangians is equivalent to using the lowest-order energy-conservation equation in the highest-order terms of the Lagrangian (complementing Schäfer's observation that the use of coordinate transformations is equivalent to using the lowest-order equations of motion in the highest-order terms of the Lagrangian). We also show how identity coordinate or identity time transformations can add double-zero terms to the Lagrangian. Next we use time and coordinate transformations to simplify the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann Lagrangian with parametrized-post-Newtonian parameters and .
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