Investigating spinning test particles: spin supplementary conditions and the Hamiltonian formalism
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-19 v2
Abstract
In this paper we report the results of a thorough numerical study of the motion of spinning particles in Kerr spacetime with different prescriptions. We first evaluate the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations with two different spin supplementary conditions, namely, the Tulczyjew and the Newton-Wigner, and make a comparison of these two cases. We then use the Hamiltonian formalism given by Barausse, Racine, and Buonanno in [Phys. Rev. D, 80, 104025 (2009)] to evolve the orbits and compare them with the corresponding orbits provided by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations. We include a full description of how to treat the issues arising in the numerical implementation.
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@article{arxiv.1409.4314,
title = {Investigating spinning test particles: spin supplementary conditions and the Hamiltonian formalism},
author = {Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos and Jonathan Seyrich and Daniela Kunst},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4314},
year = {2014}
}
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17 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in PRD