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We report calculations about the motion of a charged particle in an external electric and magnetic field. The metric for the particle moving on a slope with non-zero traction and coefficient of friction is also evaluated for weak fields. We…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Nitish Yadav , Seema Jangir

This work describes a geometric framework on molecular reaction dynamics based on the variational principle, where the Schr{\"o}dinger equation must be solved to ``see'' how a reaction occurs. First, the mathematical preliminaries are given…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Xingyu Zhang , Jinke Yu , Qingyong Meng

The space-time geometry is considered to be a physical geometry, i.e. a geometry described completely by the world function. All geometrical concepts and geometric objects are taken from the proper Euclidean geometry. They are expressed via…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

I give metrics and equations of motion in 5D general relativity, and use the conservation of momentum and conformal transformations to study the possible variability of particle masses and the cosmological 'constant'. It is feasible that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-22 Paul S. Wesson

We study the geodesic equation in the space-time of an Abelian-Higgs string and discuss the motion of massless and massive test particles. The geodesics can be classified according to the particles energy, angular momentum and linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Betti Hartmann , Parinya Sirimachan

We consider the geodesic motions in the Kerr-Sen-AdS$_4$ spacetime. We obtain the equations of motion for light rays and test particles. Using the parametric diagrams, we shown some regions where the radial and latitudinal geodesic motions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Ziqiang Cai , Tong-Yu He , Wen-Qian Wang , Zhan-Wen Han , Rong-Jia Yang

The motion of sufficiently small body in general relativity should be accurately described by a geodesic. However, there should be ``gravitational self-force'' corrections to geodesic motion, analogous to the ``radiation reaction forces''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-03 Robert M. Wald

We give an accessible introduction and elaboration on the methods used in obtaining a geodesic, which is the curve of shortest length connecting two points lying on the surface of a function. This is found through computing what's known as…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Andrew R. Tawfeek

The higher derivative gravitational theories exhibit new phenomena absent in General Relativity. One of them is the possible formation of the so called double layer which is the pure gravitational phenomenon and can be interpreted, in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-20 Victor Berezin , Vyacheslav Dokuchaev , Yury Eroshenko , Alexei Smirnov

This is a paper about geometry and how one can derive several fundamental laws of physics from a simple postulate of geometrical nature. The method uses monogenic functions analysed in the algebra of 5-dimensional spacetime, exploring the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

This work presents an alternative approach to obtain the quantum field equations in curved spacetime, considering that sufficiently small particles follow stochastic trajectories around geodesic. Our proposal is based on a stochastic…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Eric S. Escobar-Aguilar , Tonatiuh Matos , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

In general relativity, the motion of an extended body moving in a given spacetime can be described by a particle on a (generally non-geodesic) worldline. In first approximation, this worldline is a geodesic of the underlying spacetime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-05 Paul Ramond

In this work we study the general system of geodesic equations for the case of a massive particle moving on an arbitrary curved manifold. The investigation is carried out from the symmetry perspective. By exploiting the parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Dimakis , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

A novel method for calculation of the motion and radiation reaction for the two-body problem (body plus particle, the small parameter m/M being the ratio of the masses) is presented. In the background curvature given by the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

The governing equations of Maxwell electrodynamics in multi-dimensional spaces are derived from the variational principle of least action which is applied to the action function of the electromagnetic field. The Hamiltonian approach for the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Alexei M. Frolov

It is proposed how to impose a general type of ''noncommutativity'' within classical mechanics from first principles. Formulation is performed in completely alternative way, i.e. without any resort to fuzzy and/or star product philosophy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-19 Denis Kochan

We consider the motion of small bodies in general relativity. The key result captures a sense in which such bodies follow timelike geodesics (or, in the case of charged bodies, Lorentz-force curves). This result clarifies the relationship…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Robert Geroch , James Owen Weatherall

The minimal requirement for cosmography - a nondynamical description of the universe - is a prescription for calculating null geodesics, and timelike geodesics as a function of their proper time. In this paper, we consider the most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Federico Piazza , Thomas Schucker

We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong

In induced gravity theory the solution of the dynamics equations for the test particle on null path leads to additional force in four-dimensional space-time. We find such force from five-dimensional geodesic line equations and try to apply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. B. Belayev