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Letter: A Simple Criterion for Nonrotating Reference Frames

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We prove a theorem that gives an easily verifiable necessary and sufficient condition for a reference frame with fixed spacelike coordinates to be nonrotating in the sense of Walker. Applications are discussed.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California, 91330-8268

    Peter Collas

  2. Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California, 91330-8313

    David Klein

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Collas, P., Klein, D. Letter: A Simple Criterion for Nonrotating Reference Frames. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 1493–1499 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000022585.68675.38

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