Analytical solutions for geodesics in black hole spacetimes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-05 v1
Abstract
We review the analytical solution methods for the geodesic equations in Kerr-Newman-Taub-NUT-de Sitter spacetimes and its subclasses in terms of elliptic and hyperelliptic functions. A short guide to corresponding literature for general timelike and lightlike motion is also presented.
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@article{arxiv.1506.01572,
title = {Analytical solutions for geodesics in black hole spacetimes},
author = {Eva Hackmann and Claus Lämmerzahl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01572},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages; based on the contribution to the "Karl Schwarzschild Meeting 2013" in Frankfurt, Germany. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1506.00807