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Paper   IPM / P / 13892
School of Physics
  Title:   The equivalence principle and the relative velocity of local inertial frames
  Author(s): 
1.  F. Shojai
2.  A. Shojai
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Am. J. Phys.
  Vol.:  83
  Year:  2015
  Pages:   555
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
In this paper, we explicitly show that in general relativity, the relative velocity of two local inertial frames is always less than the velocity of light. This fact is a by-product of the equivalence principle. The general result is then illustrated within two examples, the FLRW cosmological model and the Schwarzschild metric.

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