The dynamics of a spinning particle in a linear in spin Hamiltonian approximation
Abstract
We investigate for order and chaos the dynamical system of a spinning test particle of mass moving in the spacetime background of a Kerr black hole of mass M. This system is approximated in our investigation by the linear in spin Hamiltonian function provided in [E. Barausse, and A. Buonanno, Phys.Rev. D 81, 084024 (2010)]. We study the corresponding phase space by using 2D projections on a surface of section and the method of color and rotation on a 4D Poincar\'e section. Various topological structures coming from the non-integrability of the linear in spin Hamiltonian are found and discussed. Moreover, an interesting result is that from the value of the dimensionless spin of the particle and below, the impact of the non-integrability of the system on the motion of the particle seems to be negligible.
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@article{arxiv.1606.09171,
title = {The dynamics of a spinning particle in a linear in spin Hamiltonian approximation},
author = {Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos and Matthaios Katsanikas and Panos A. Patsis and Jonathan Seyrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09171},
year = {2016}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, to appear in Phys. Rev. D