 Gravitational redshift between static Schwarzschild observers (source code)

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= Gravitational redshift between static Schwarzschild observers

For static observers at radii $r_A$ and $r_B$, equal Schwarzschild-coordinate time intervals correspond to proper times $d\tau=\sqrt{1-2M/r}\,dt$. Hence
$$
\frac{\Delta\tau_B}{\Delta\tau_A}
=\sqrt{\frac{1-2M/r_B}{1-2M/r_A}}.
$$

This static-observer relation is a special case of <gravitational redshift>, not a definition of every gravitational frequency shift.

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