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Klein-Gordon equation in curved space-time

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-06-13 v1

Abstract

We solve the relativistic Klein--Gordon equation for a light particle gravitationally bound to a heavy central mass, with the gravitational interaction prescribed by the metric of a spherically symmetric space-time. Metrics are considered for an impenetrable sphere, a soft sphere of uniform density, and a soft sphere with a linear transition from constant to zero density; in each case the radius of the central mass is chosen to be sufficient to avoid any event horizon. The solutions are obtained numerically and compared with nonrelativistic Coulomb-type solutions, both directly and in perturbation theory, to study the general-relativistic corrections to the quantum solutions for a 1/r1/r potential. The density profile with a linear transition is chosen to avoid singularities in the wave equation that can be caused by a discontinuous derivative of the density.

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@article{arxiv.1711.00735,
  title  = {Klein-Gordon equation in curved space-time},
  author = {R. D. Lehn and S. S. Chabysheva and J. R. Hiller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00735},
  year   = {2018}
}

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18 pages, 9 figures, RevTeX 4.1

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