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Special Relativity

Special Relativity is a foundational theory in theoretical physics that formulates the relativity of motion and the invariance of the speed of light in inertial frames, distinguishing itself from General Relativity by excluding the effects of gravity.

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Special Theory Of Relativity

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Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics

R. P. Kerr · Physical Review Letters · 1963 · 3.5K citations

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General relativity with spin and torsion: Foundations and prospects

Friedrich W. Hehl, Paul von der Heyde, G. David Kerlick et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1976 · 2.7K citations

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General Relativity – An Einstein Centenary Survey

J M Irvine · Physics Bulletin · 1980 · 2.7K citations

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Towards a general theory of action and time

James F. Allen · Artificial Intelligence · 1984 · 2.6K citations

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Quantized Space-Time

Hartland S. Snyder · Physical Review · 1947 · 2.2K citations

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Authors

11.3K

  1. MV
    Matt Visser

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    32 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. GA
    Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

    29 publications · 3K citations

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  3. VA
    V. Alan Kostelecký

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    24 publications · 4.8K citations

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  4. CL
    Cláus Lämmerzahl

    University of Bremen, Germany

    27 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. FW
    Friedrich W. Hehl

    University of Cologne, Germany

    25 publications · 4.6K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    66 h-index

    547 publications

    43.2K citations

  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    56 h-index

    228 publications

    33.1K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    48 h-index

    216 publications

    13.9K citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    47 h-index

    138 publications

    18.5K citations

  5. Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

    Potsdam, Germany

    45 h-index

    152 publications

    13.7K citations

  6. Perimeter Institute

    Waterloo, Canada

    45 h-index

    142 publications

    12K citations

  7. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    44 h-index

    126 publications

    23.3K citations

  8. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    41 h-index

    109 publications

    19.5K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 245 publications · 35.1K citations

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  4. Classical and Quantum Gravity

    601 publications · 31.1K citations

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  5. Journal of High Energy Physics

    JHEP · 331 publications · 19.4K citations

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