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The dynamics of a spinning particle in a linear in spin Hamiltonian approximation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-07-12 v1 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate for order and chaos the dynamical system of a spinning test particle of mass mm 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 S/(mM)=104S/(m M)=10^{-4} 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