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de Sitter geodesics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-12-20 v2

Abstract

The geodesics on the (1+3)(1+3)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime are considered studying how their parameters are determined by the conserved quantities in the conformal Euclidean, Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker, de Sitter-Painlev\'e and static local charts with Cartesian space coordinates. Moreover, it is shown that there exist a special static chart in which the geodesics are genuine hyperbolas whose asymptotes are given by the conserved momentum and the associated dual momentum.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02956,
  title  = {de Sitter geodesics},
  author = {Ion I. Cotaescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02956},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 6 figures

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