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Charged particle dynamics in singular spacetimes: hydrogenic mapping and curvature-corrected thermodynamics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-02-25 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the dynamics of charged test particles in a singular, horizonless spacetime arising as the massless limit of a charged wormhole in the Einstein--Maxwell--Scalar (EMS) framework. The geometry, sustained solely by an electric charge QQ, features an infinite sequence of curvature singularity shells, with the outermost at r=2Qπ r_* = \frac{2|Q|}{\pi} acting as a hard boundary for nonradial motion, while radial trajectories can access it depending on the particle charge-to-mass ratio q/m |q|/m . Exploiting exact first integrals, we construct the effective potential and obtain circular orbit radii, radial epicyclic frequencies, and azimuthal precession rates. In the weak-field limit (rQ r \gg |Q| ), the motion reduces to a Coulombic system with small curvature-induced retrograde precession. At large radii, the dynamics maps to a hydrogenic system, with curvature corrections inducing perturbative energy shifts. Approaching r r_* , the potential diverges, producing hard-wall confinement. Curvature corrections also modify the spectral thermodynamics, raising energies and slightly altering entropy and heat capacity. Our results characterize the transition from Newtonian-like orbits to strongly confined, curvature-dominated dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2509.16289,
  title  = {Charged particle dynamics in singular spacetimes: hydrogenic mapping and curvature-corrected thermodynamics},
  author = {Abdullah Guvendi and Semra Gurtas Dogan and Omar Mustafa and Hassan Hassanabadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16289},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables (To appear in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics)