General relativistic corrections to the Sagnac effect

A. Tartaglia
Phys. Rev. D 58, 064009 – Published 10 August 1998
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Abstract

The difference in travel time of corotating and counterrotating light waves in the field of a central massive and spinning body is studied. The corrections to the special relativistic formula are worked out in a Kerr field. An estimation of numeric values for the Earth and satellites in orbit around it show that a direct measurement is on the order of concrete possibilities.

  • Received 4 November 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.064009

©1998 American Physical Society

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A. Tartaglia*

  • Dipartimento Fisica, Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy

  • *Email address: tartaglia@polito.it

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Vol. 58, Iss. 6 — 15 September 1998

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