# Acceleration field

Acceleration field is a two-component vector field, describing in a covariant way the four-acceleration of individual particles and the four-force that occurs in systems with multiple closely interacting particles. The acceleration field is a component of the general field, which is represented in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian of an arbitrary physical system by the term with the energy of particles’ motion and the term with the field energy. [1]  [2]  The acceleration field enters into the equation of motion through the acceleration tensor and into the equation for the metric through the acceleration stress-energy tensor.

The acceleration field was presented by Sergey Fedosin within the framework of the metric theory of relativity and covariant theory of gravitation, and the equations of this field were obtained as a consequence of the principle of least action. [3] [4]

## Contents

• 1 Mathematical description
• 1.1 Action, Lagrangian and energy
• 1.2 Equations
• 1.3 The stress-energy tensor
• 2 Specific solutions for the acceleration field functions
• 2.1 Ideally solid particle
• 2.2 Rotation of a particle
• 2.3 The system of particles
• 3 Other approaches
• 4 The use in the general theory of relativity
• 6 References

## Mathematical description

The 4-potential of the acceleration field is expressed in terms of the scalar   and vector   potentials:

The antisymmetric acceleration tensor is calculated with the help of the 4-curl of the 4-potential:

The acceleration tensor components are the components of the field strength   and the components of the solenoidal vector :

We obtain the following:

In the general case the scalar and vector potentials are found by solving the wave equations for the acceleration field potentials.

### Action, Lagrangian and energy

In the covariant theory of gravitation the 4-potential    of the acceleration field is part of the 4-potential of the general field  , which is the sum of the 4-potentials of particular fields, such as the electromagnetic and gravitational fields, acceleration field, pressure field, dissipation field, strong interaction field, weak interaction field and other vector fields, acting on the matter and its particles. All of these fields are somehow represented in the matter, so that the 4-potential   cannot consist of only one 4-potential   . The energy density of interaction of the general field and the matter is given by the product of the 4-potential of the general field and the mass 4-current: . We obtain the general field tensor from the 4-potential of the general field, using the 4-curl:

The tensor invariant in the form   is up to a constant factor proportional to the energy density of the general field. As a result, the action function, which contains the scalar curvature   and the cosmological constant , is given by the expression: [1]

where   is the Lagrange function or Lagrangian;   is the time differential of the coordinate reference system;   and    are the constants to be determined;   is the speed of light as a measure of the propagation speed of the electromagnetic and gravitational interactions;   is the invariant 4-volume expressed in terms of the differential of the time coordinate , the product   of differentials of the space coordinates and the square root    of the determinant   of the metric tensor, taken with a negative sign.

The variation of the action function gives the general field equations, the four-dimensional equation of motion and the equation for the metric. Since the acceleration field is the general field component, then from the general field equations the corresponding equations of the acceleration field are derived.

Given the gauge condition of the cosmological constant in the form

is met, the system energy does not depend on the term with the scalar curvature and is uniquely determined: [4]

where   and   denote the time components of the 4-vectors   and  .

The system’s 4-momentum is given by the formula:

where   and    denote the system’s momentum and the velocity of the system’s center of momentum.

### Equations

The four-dimensional equations of the acceleration field are similar in their form to Maxwell equations and are as follows:

where   is the mass 4-current,   is the mass density in the co-moving reference frame,   is the 4-velocity of the matter unit,   is a constant, which is determined in each problem, and it is supposed that there is an equilibrium between all fields in the observed physical system.

The gauge condition of the 4-potential of the acceleration field:

If the second equation with the field source is written with the covariant index in the following form:

then after substituting here the expression for the acceleration tensor    through the 4-potential    of the acceleration field  we obtain the wave equation for calculating the potentials of the acceleration field:

where     is the Ricci tensor.

The continuity equation in curved space-time is:

In Minkowski space of the special theory of relativity, the Ricci tensor is set to zero, the form of the acceleration field equations is simplified and they can be expressed in terms of the field strength   and the solenoidal vector :

where    is the Lorentz factor,   is the mass current density,   is the velocity of the matter unit.

The wave equation is also simplified and can be written separately for the scalar and vector potentials:

The equation of motion of the matter unit in the general field is given by the formula:

.

Since  , and the general field tensor is expressed in terms of the tensors of particular fields, then the equation of motion can be represented with the help of these tensors:

Here   is the electromagnetic tensor,   is the charge 4-current,   is the gravitational tensor,   is the pressure field tensor,   is the dissipation field tensor,   is the strong interaction field tensor,   is the weak interaction field tensor.

### The stress-energy tensor

The acceleration stress-energy tensor is calculated with the help of the acceleration tensor:

.

We find as part of the tensor  the 3-vector of the energy-momentum flux , which is similar in its meaning to the Poynting vector and the Heaviside vector. The vector   can be represented through the vector product of the field strength   and the solenoidal vector :

here the index is

The covariant derivative of the stress-energy tensor of the acceleration field with mixed indices specifies the 4-force density:

where   denotes the proper time differential in the curved spacetime.

The stress-energy tensor of the acceleration field is part of the stress-energy tensor of the general field :

where        is the strong interaction stress-energy tensor,   is the weak interaction stress-energy tensor.

Through the tensor   the stress-energy tensor of the acceleration field enters into the equation for the metric:

where   is the Ricci tensor,   is the gravitational constant,   is a certain constant, and the gauge condition of the cosmological constant is used.

## Specific solutions for the acceleration field functions

The four-potential of any vector field, the global vector potential of which is equal to zero in the proper reference frame K', that is, in the center-of-momentum frame, in case of rectilinear motion in the laboratory reference frame K, can be presented as follows: [3] [5]

where      is for the electromagnetic field and    for the remaining fields;   and    are the invariant mass density and the charge density in the comoving reference frame, respectively;   is the invariant energy density of the interaction, calculated as product of the four-potential of the field and the corresponding four-current;   is the covariant four-velocity that determines the motion of the center of momentum of the physical system in K.

In the special relativity (SR), in the center-of-momentum frame K'  the energy density is  , where    is the Lorentz factor, and for the acceleration field, while the physical system is moving in K, the four-potential of the acceleration field will equal  .

In case when the physical system is stationary in K, we will have   , and consequently, the scalar potential will be  . If in the physical system, on the average, there are directed fluxes of matter or rotation of matter, the vector potential    of the acceleration field is no longer equal to zero.

### Ideally solid particle

In the approximation, when a particle is regarded as an ideally solid object, the matter inside the particle is motionless. It means that the Lorentz factor    of this matter in the center-of-momentum frame  K'  is equal to unity, so that the four-potential of the acceleration field becomes equal to the four-velocity of motion of the center of momentum:

In the SR, the expression for 4-velocity is simplified and we can write:

The acceleration tensor components according to (1) will equal:

Since in the solid-state motion equation for the four-acceleration with a covariant index   the relation holds

then in SR we obtain the following:

and the equations for the Lorentz factor   and for the 3-acceleration   :

Multiplying equation (6) by the velocity   , substituting the quantity    from equation (5) to (6), taking into account relation    we find the well-known expression for the derivative of the Lorentz factor using the scalar product of the velocity and acceleration in SR:

We can prove the validity of equation (6) by substituting in its right-hand side the expression for the strength and solenoidal vector:

Indeed, the use of the material derivative gives the following:

Substituting these relations in (7), taking into account the expression    we obtain the identity:

If the components of the particle velocity are the functions of time and they do not directly depend on the space coordinates, then the solenoidal vector   vanishes in such a motion.

In the SR    is the relativistic energy,   is the 3-vector of relativistic momentum. If the mass    of a particle is constant, then multiplying (7) by the mass, we arrive to following equation for the force:

Rotation of a particle

For a small ideally solid particle, we can neglect the motion of the matter inside the particle and can assume that the four-potential of the acceleration field is equal to the four-velocity of the particle’s center of momentum. Let us assume that the particle rotates about the axis OZ of the coordinate system at the distance    from the axis at the constant angular velocity   counterclockwise, as viewed from the side, in which the OZ axis is directed. Then we can assume that the linear velocity of the particle depends only on the coordinates    and  , and for the velocity’s projections on the axes of the coordinate system we can write:  ,  while the square of the velocity equals  . For the Lorentz factor in the SR we obtain the following:

With this in mind, the potentials and field strengths of the acceleration field can be written as follows:

If we substitute ,  ,    and    in (6), we can determine the acceleration components of the particle and the acceleration amplitude:

The acceleration is directed towards the center of rotation and represents centripetal acceleration. Using now the classic vector description, we have also for the time and coordinates of reference frame at the center of rotation:

where    and    are two coordinates of the cylindrical coordinate system,   is the vector from the center of rotation to the particle,   is the axial vector of the differential of the rotation angle directed along the axis OZ.

As we can see, in case of such a motion with acceleration the vector product     is not equal to zero, just as the three-vector    of the energy-momentum flux of the acceleration field inside the particle.

### The system of particles

Due to interaction of a number of particles with each other by means of various fields, including interaction at a distance without direct contact, the acceleration field in the matter changes and is different from the acceleration field of individual particles at the observation point. As a result, the density of the 4-force in the system of particles is given by the strength and the solenoidal vector, which represent the typical average characteristics of the matter motion. For example, in a gravitationally bound system there is a radial gradient of the vector   and if the system is moving or rotating, there is a vector   From (4) there follows the general expression for the density of the 4-force with covariant index:

where   denotes a four-dimensional space-time interval. For a stationary case, when the potentials of the acceleration field are independent of time, under the assumption that    wave equation (2) for the scalar potential in the SR is transformed into the equation:

The solution of this equation for a fixed sphere with the particles randomly moving in it has the form: [6]

where    is the Lorentz factor for the velocities   of the particles in the center of the sphere, and due to the smallness of the argument the sine is expanded to the second order terms. From the formula it follows that the average velocities of the particles are maximal in the center and decrease when approaching the surface of the sphere.

In such a system, the scalar potential   becomes the function of the radius, and the vector potential   and the solenoidal vector   are equal to zero. The acceleration field strength   is found with the help of (1). Then we can calculate all the functions of the acceleration field, including the energy of particles in this field and the energy of the acceleration field itself. [7] For cosmic bodies the main contribution to the four-acceleration in the matter makes the gravitational force and the pressure field.

At the same time the relativistic rest energy of the system is automatically derived, taking into account the motion of particles inside the sphere. For the system of particles with the acceleration field, pressure field, gravitational and electromagnetic fields the given approach allowed solving the 4/3 problem and showed where and in what form the energy of the system is contained. The relation for the acceleration field constant in this problem was found:

where   is the electric constant,   and   are the total charge and mass of the system.

The solution of the wave equation for the acceleration field within the system results in temperature distribution according to the formula: [6]

where   is the temperature in the center,   is the mass of the particle, for which the mass of the proton is taken (for systems which are based on hydrogen or nucleons in atomic nuclei),   is the mass of the system within the current radius ,   is the Boltzmann constant.

This dependence is well satisfied for a variety of space objects, including gas clouds and Bok globules, the Earth, the Sun and neutron stars.

In articles [8] [9] the ratio of the field’s coefficients for the fields was specified as follows:

where   is the pressure field constant.

If we introduce the parameter   as the number of nucleons per ionized gas particle, then the acceleration field constant is expressed as follows:

For the temperature inside the cosmic bodies in the gravitational equilibrium model we find the dependence on the current radius:

where   is the mass of one gas particle, which is taken as the unified atomic mass unit, and the coefficients   and    are included into the dependence of the mass density on the radius in the relation

The wave equation (3) for the vector potential of the acceleration field was used to represent the relativistic equation of the fluid’s motion in the form of the Navier–Stokes equations in hydrodynamics and to describe the motion of the viscous compressible and charged fluid. [10]

## Other approaches

Studying the Lorentz covariance of the 4-force, Friedman and Scarr found incomplete covariance of the expression for the 4-force in the form  [11]

This led them to conclude that the four-acceleration in SR must be expressed with the help of a certain antisymmetric tensor   :

Based on the analysis of various types of motion, they estimated the required values of the acceleration tensor components, thereby giving indirect definition to this tensor. From comparison with (4) it follows that the tensor    up to a sign and a constant multiplier coincides with the acceleration tensor    in case when rectilinear motion of a solid body without rotation is considered. Then indeed the four-potential of the acceleration field coincides with the four-velocity,  .  As a result, the quantity    on the right-hand side of (4) vanishes, since the following relations hold true:  ,    . With this in mind, in (4) we can raise the index and cancel the mass density, which gives the following:

Mashhoon and Muench considered transformation of inertial reference frames, co-moving with the accelerated reference frame, and obtained the relation: [12]

The tensor    has the same properties as the acceleration tensor

The use in the general theory of relativity

The action function in the general relativity (GR) can be represented as the sum of the four terms, which are responsible, respectively, for the spacetime metric, the matter in the form of substance, the electromagnetic field and the pressure field:

Additional terms can be included in the action function, if other fields must be taken into account. The first, second and third terms of the action have the standard form: [13]

where   is the electromagnetic four-potential.

The term  , which is responsible for the contribution of pressure into the action function, is different in the works of different authors, depending on how the pressure is related to the elastic energy and whether the pressure field is considered to be a scalar field or a vector field. It should be noted that in the GR, the gravitational field is included in the action function not directly, but indirectly, by means of the metric tensor. In this case, as a rule, the pressure field is considered to be a scalar field.

In contrast, in the covariant theory of gravitation (CTG), the term    associated with the acceleration field is used instead of the term  , and the action function can be written as follows: [4]

Here

where   is the four-potential of the pressure field,   is the coefficient of the pressure field,   is the pressure field tensor, .

In the case of rectilinear motion of a rigid body without rotation, the following relations will hold:   ,    , and in the term    the relation    is obtained. In this particular case it is clear that the term    differs from the term   by an additional term associated with the energy of the acceleration field.

This is due to the fact that in the covariant theory of gravitation the acceleration field is considered to be a vector field, whereas as in the general relativity the acceleration field is actually used as a scalar field that does not depend on the particles’ velocities. In both theories, the acceleration field allows us to determine the contribution of the rest energy of the particles into the total energy of the system of particles and fields. However, the use of the acceleration field as a scalar field in the general relativity does not agree in its form with the vector nature of the electromagnetic field. Indeed, in the limiting case, when only the particles’ accelerations and electromagnetic forces are taken into account, the acceleration must be two-component, as is the case for the acceleration due to the action of the two-component Lorentz force. But this is possible only in the case, when the acceleration field is a vector field. The situation can be improved if, in addition to the gravitational field function, we ascribe to the metric field    in the general relativity the function of the vector component of the acceleration field, but this makes the equations of the theory even more complex and complicated.

It should be noted that in the general case of arbitrary motion of the matter the relation    is no longer satisfied and CTG does not coincide any more with GR in the method of describing the rest energy of a physical system. This means that in GR the motion of the matter is considered in a simplified way, as rectilinear motion of a solid body, whereas in CTG the use of the four-potential  o  f the acceleration field allows us to take into account the internal motion of the matter in each selected volume element. For example, when a particle moves round a circle, the four-potential    of the particle’s matter will depend on the location of this matter with respect to the circle line, since the velocity of the particle’s matter depends on the radius of rotation.

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