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Chaotic particle motion around a homogeneous circular ring

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-08-18 v3 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider test particle motion in a gravitational field generated by a homogeneous circular ring placed in nn-dimensional Euclidean space. We observe that there exist no stable stationary orbits in n=6,7,,10n=6, 7, \ldots, 10 but exist in n=3,4,5n=3, 4, 5 and clarify the regions in which they appear. In n=3n=3, we show that the separation of variables of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation does not occur though we find no signs of chaos for stable bound orbits. Since the system is integrable in n=4n=4, no chaos appears. In n=5n=5, we find some chaotic stable bound orbits. Therefore, this system is nonintegrable at least in n=5n=5 and suggests that the timelike geodesic system in the corresponding black ring spacetimes is nonintegrable.

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@article{arxiv.2006.05052,
  title  = {Chaotic particle motion around a homogeneous circular ring},
  author = {Takahisa Igata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05052},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revision, add references; v3: published version

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