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On the magnetic 2+1- D space-time and its non-relativistic counterpart

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-16 v1

Abstract

We present here an interesting non-relativistic limit, referred to as the Newton-Hooke (NH) limit, of the purely magnetic BTZ solution by starting from the Einstein-Maxwell system in the 2+1 dimensions. The Newton-Hooke limit is different from the Galilean limit in the sense that the former contains an additional parameter {\Lambda}, the cosmological constant, over and above the speed of light, c. We show that under this limit, the geodesics of the magnetic BTZ solution reduce to the two-dimensional motion of a charged particle in a normal magnetic field together with the presence of an extra harmonic potential, sometimes called the Fock-Darwin problem, which serves as a precursor to model certain condensed matter theories. Our present study has significance in analyzing the symmetries of different dynamical systems, from relativistic and/to nonrelativistic theories. Also, we discuss here one of the applications of the generalized (magnetic) NH_3 symmetry in the context of the Virial theorem, where this symmetry is the symmetry group of the Fock-Darwin problem mentioned above.

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@article{arxiv.2512.13029,
  title  = {On the magnetic 2+1- D space-time and its non-relativistic counterpart},
  author = {Sayan Kumar Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.13029},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Minor update from the published version: a few typos corrected