Equation 43 · Part 1 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
Symbol u
What this part means
varied away from the body’s own rest-frame observer to some other inertial observer boosted at velocity relative to it.
Its job in the formula
u is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
The Disk a Free Body Draws Around Itself 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 = 0 — and ask how moves as u is varied away from the body’s own rest-frame observer to some other inertial observer boosted at velocity relative to it.
The passage around this formula
…S | ||\,v saturates when the spin is perpendicular to the boost. No boosted observer, however extreme, can push a body’s own centroid further from its rest-frame value than . As u ranges over every inertial observer, traces out a disk of exactly that radius, orthogonal to — the world-tube first identified by Møller and reproduced in modern language by Costa and Natário’s review of spin supplementary conditions [ 13 ] .
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