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Equation 37 · Part 12 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Numerator: mathbf S × mathbf v

Δx=S×vMc2,\Delta \mathbf x = \frac{\mathbf S \times \mathbf v}{Mc^2},
S×v\mathbf S \times \mathbf v

What this part means

The complete quantity above the fraction bar.

Its job in the formula

mathbf S × mathbf v occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

Fix the slicing convention that anchors the centroid to the body’s own rest frame — the choice, standard in the spinning-body literature, in which the spin tensor about the centroid satisfies SαβS^{\alpha\beta}PβP_\beta = 0 — and ask how Xμ(u,Σ)X^\mu(u,\Sigma) moves as u is varied away from the body’s own rest-frame observer to some other inertial observer boosted at velocity v\mathbf v relative to it. Costa and Natário’s synthesis of the classical spinning-body literature gives the answer in closed form: the centroid measured by the boosted observer is displaced from the rest-frame centroid by Δx=S×vMc2\Delta \mathbf x = \frac{\mathbf S \times \mathbf v}{Mc^2}. a shift transverse to both the spin and the relative velocity [ 13 ] . This is an exact…

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A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.

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