Timeline for Does this path integral give the minimum proper time-squared between to points?
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| Mar 21, 2020 at 0:26 | comment | added | user84158 | It would be nice if there was some function $f(x,y,q)=\sum \tau_n q^n$ where $n$ was the winding number. To separate all the different maxima. | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 21:55 | comment | added | user84158 | Just thinking a gravitational mass like a black hole would be similar to the cylindrical solution. The different geodesics being how many times the path orbits the black hole. | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 21:40 | comment | added | user84158 | Thanks for your detailed answer. It's good to know that sometimes my intuition is correct even though mostly its wrong! | |
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| Mar 20, 2020 at 21:28 | comment | added | user84158 | So to summarise, it would be true to say the function $f(x,y)$ is a function of the proper times of all possible geodesic paths connecting two space-time points? Something like this: $1/(1/\tau_1 + 1/\tau_2+...)$ That would make sense, since the geodesic times would be the only invariants I can think of. | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 11:21 | history | edited | Slereah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2020 at 10:26 | history | answered | Slereah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |