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Schwarzschild geodesics in terms of elliptic functions and the related red shift

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-05-20 v2

Abstract

Using Weierstrassian elliptic functions the exact geodesics in the Schwarzschild metric are expressed in a simple and most transparent form. The results are useful for analytical and numerical applications. For example we calculate the perihelion precession and the light deflection in the post-Einsteinian approximation. The bounded orbits are computed in the post-Newtonian order. As a topical application we calculate the gravitational red shift for a star moving in the Schwarzschild field.

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@article{arxiv.1101.1207,
  title  = {Schwarzschild geodesics in terms of elliptic functions and the related red shift},
  author = {Gunter Scharf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.1207},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages, no figure, computational error corrected, new material added