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Spin precession along circular orbits in the Kerr spacetime: the Frenet-Serret description

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

The circular motion of spinning massive test particles in the equatorial plane of a rotating black hole is investigated in the case in which the components of the spin tensor are allowed to vary along the orbit.

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@article{arxiv.1408.4278,
  title  = {Spin precession along circular orbits in the Kerr spacetime: the Frenet-Serret description},
  author = {Donato Bini and Fernando de Felice and Andrea Geralico and Robert T. Jantzen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4278},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 1 figure; published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0506017