• Corpus ID: 119107197

Length contraction in Very Special Relativity

@article{Dutta2011LengthCI,
  title={Length contraction in Very Special Relativity},
  author={Biplab Dutta and Kaushik Bhattacharya},
  journal={arXiv: Classical Physics},
  year={2011}
}

• Biplab Dutta, K. Bhattacharya
• Published 21 May 2011
• Physics
• arXiv: Classical Physics

Glashow and Cohen claim that many results of special theory of relativity (SR) like time dilation, relativistic velocity addition, etc, can be explained by using certain proper subgroups, of the Lorentz group, which collectively form the main body of Very special relativity (VSR). They did not mention about length contraction in VSR. Length contraction in VSR has not been studied at all. In this article we calculate how the length of a moving rod contracts in VSR, particularly in the HOM(2) version. The results are interesting in the sense that in general the length contraction formulas in VSR are different from SR but in many cases the two theories predict similar length contraction of moving rods.