Rindler coordinates

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Rindler coordinates are a coordinate system used to describe the hyperbolic acceleration of a uniformly accelerating reference frame in flat spacetime. The coordinates of a hyperbolically accelerated reference frame constitute a useful coordinate chart representing flat Minkowski spacetime. In special relativity, a uniform acceleration results in hyperbolic motion, for which a uniformly accelerating frame of reference in which it is at rest can be chosen as its proper reference frame. The phenomena in this frame can be compared to effects arising in a homogeneous gravitational field. Historically, such coordinates were introduced soon after the advent of special relativity, when they were studied (fully or partially) alongside the concept of hyperbolic motion: In relation to flat Minkowski spacetime by Albert Einstein (1907, 1912), Max Born (1909), Arnold Sommerfeld (1910), Max von Laue (1911), Hendrik Lorentz (1913), Friedrich Kottler (1914), Wolfgang Pauli (1921), Karl Bollert (1922)...

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