Positive-Mass Synthesis of Prescribed Gravitational Fields and Gradients

Summary

Extends the synthesis to prescribed accelerations and gradients, characterizing positive realizations and enhanced derivative cancellation.

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This work concerns Newtonian gravitational source engineering using ordinary positive physical source masses. It is unrelated to the classical Positive Mass Theorem of differential geometry and general relativity.