Non-Inertial Frames and Dirac Observables in Relativity

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'The book is very much a technical monograph, with very detailed mathematical descriptions that will need careful study to make best use of it. It is not always an easy read, but rather a formidable tour-de-force that will primarily be for experts in the field.' Alan Heavens, The Observatory 'This book is devoted to making an extensive and very detailed study of the relationship between these topics and showing their application to relativistic particle systems, fluids and field theories in inertial and non-inertial systems. In this sense, as the author himself describes in the preface, it becomes clear that the transitions between non-inertial frames are gauge transformations, that extra variables are gauge variables, and that the measurable matter quantities are gauge invariant Dirac observables. The last part of the book (two chapters) is devoted to presenting a very thorough review of the Dirac-Bergmann theory of constrained systems ... The book also includes three appendices that clarify some aspects and tools used in the exposition, a presentation of conclusions and a brief discussion on some of the main open problems among which, obviously, the quantization of fields in non-inertial frames stands out.' Narciso Roman-Roy, Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet