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Geodesics around Weyl-Bach's Ring Solution

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-05-13 v2

Abstract

We explore some of the gravitational features of a uniform ring both in the Newtonian potential theory and in General Relativity. We use a spacetime associated to a Weyl static solution of the vacuum Einstein's equations with ring like singularity. The Newtonian motion for a test particle in the gravitational field of the ring is studied and compared with the corresponding geodesic motion in the given spacetime. We have found a relativistic peculiar attraction: free falling particle geodesics are lead to the inner rim but never hit the ring.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0507033,
  title  = {Geodesics around Weyl-Bach's Ring Solution},
  author = {L. A. D'Afonseca and P. S. Letelier and S. R. Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0507033},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 figures, 14 pages. LaTeX w/ subfigure, graphicx