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Nonexistence of the final first integral in the Zipoy-Voorhees space-time

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-10-07 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the geodesic motion in the Zipoy-Voorhees space-time is not Liouville integrable, in that there does not exist an additional first integral meromorphic in the phase space variables.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4234,
  title  = {Nonexistence of the final first integral in the Zipoy-Voorhees space-time},
  author = {Andrzej J. Maciejewski and Maria Przybylska and Tomasz Stachowiak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4234},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure; updated theory section and minor language corrections in version 3