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Study of motion around a static black hole in Einstein and Lovelock gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-05 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We study motion around a static Einstein and pure Lovelock black hole in higher dimensions. It is known that in higher dimensions, bound orbits exist only for pure Lovelock black hole in all even dimensions, D=2N+2, where N is degree of Lovelock polynomial action. In particular, we compute periastron shift and light bending and the latter is given by one of transverse spatial components of Riemann curvature tensor. We also consider pseudo-Newtonian potentials and Kruskal coordinates.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4013,
  title  = {Study of motion around a static black hole in Einstein and Lovelock gravity},
  author = {Mukul Bhattacharya and Naresh Dadhich and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4013},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages including 8 figures and 1 table, discussion and references modified; version accepted for publication in Physical Review D