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How to glide in Schwarzschild spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-03-22 v1

Abstract

We investigate the motion of extended test objects in the Schwarzschild spacetime, particularly the radial fall of two point masses connected by a massless rod of a length given as a fixed, periodic function of time. We argue that such a model is inappropriate in the most interesting regimes of high and low oscillation frequencies.

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@article{arxiv.1903.08721,
  title  = {How to glide in Schwarzschild spacetime},
  author = {Vítek Veselý and Martin Zofka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08721},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages, 10 figures

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