English

Rotating systems, universal features in dragging and anti-dragging effects, and bounds onto angular momentum

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-01-04 v2

Abstract

We consider stationary, axially symmetric toroids rotating around spinless black holes, assuming the general-relativistic Keplerian rotation law, in the first post-Newtonian approximation. Numerical investigation shows that the angular momentum accumulates almost exclusively within toroids. It appears that various types of dragging (anti-dragging) effects are positively correlated with the ratio MD/mM_\mathrm{D}/m (MDM_\mathrm{D} is the mass of a toroid and mm is the mass of the black hole) - moreover, their maxima are proportional to MD/mM_\mathrm{D}/m. The horizontal sizes of investigated toroids range from c. 50 to c. 450 of Schwarzschild radii RSR_\mathrm{S} of the central black hole; their mass MD(104m,40m)M_\mathrm{D} \in (10^{-4}m, 40m) and the radial size of the system is c. 500 RSR_\mathrm{S}. We found that the relative strength of various dragging (anti-dragging) effects does not change with the mass ratio, but it depends on the size of toroids. Several isoperimetric inequalities involving angular momentum are shown to hold true.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06586,
  title  = {Rotating systems, universal features in dragging and anti-dragging effects, and bounds onto angular momentum},
  author = {Janusz Karkowski and Patryk Mach and Edward Malec and Michal Pirog and Naqing Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06586},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Revised and corrected, 14 pages, to appear in Physical Review D

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