I'm looking at the 1927 paper of Thomas, The Kinematics of an Electron with an Axis, where he shows that the instantaneous co-moving frame of an accelerating electron rotates and moves with some infinitesimal velocity. He states:
At t=t0 let the electron have position r0 and velocity v0, with β0=(1−v02/c2)−12, in (r,t). Then, by (2.1), that definite system of coordinates (R0,T0) in which the electron is instantaneously at rest at the origin and which is obtained from (r,t) by a translation and a Lorentz transformation without rotation is gven by R0=r−r0+(β0−1)(r−r0)⋅v0v02v0−β0v0(t−t0)T0=β0(t−t0−(r−r0)⋅v0c2)
By eliminating (r,t) from equations (3.1) and the similar equations for (R1,T1),R1=R0+(β0−1)v02(R0×(v0×dv0))−β0T0(dv0+(β0−1)(v0⋅dv0)v02v0)T1=T0−β0c2((R0⋅(dv0+(β0−1)(v0⋅dv0)v02v0)))−dτ0
What are the steps to get from (3.1) to (3.3)?
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