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The geometry of a light wavefront evolving from a flat wavefront under the action of weak gravity field in the 3-space associated to a post-Newtonian relativistic spacetime, is studied numerically by means of the ray tracing method.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 J. -F. Pascual-Sánchez , A. San Miguel , F. Vicente

The physics associated with spherically symmetric charged black holes is analyzed from the point of view of using weak gravitational lensing as a means for determining the dimensionality of spacetime. In particular, for exact solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-28 Jop Briet , David Hobill

According to GTR and subsequent developments in the field, it is known that there are three factors namely mass, rotation and charge that can influence the space-time geometry. Accordingly, we discuss the effect of space-time geometry of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Sarani Chakraborty , A. K. Sen

The starting point of this work is the principle that all movement of particles and photons must follow geodesics of a 4-dimensional space where time intervals are always a measure on geodesic arc lengths. The last 3 coordinates (alpha =…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

Based on the geodesic equation in a static spherically symmetric metric we discuss the rotation curve and gravitational lensing. The rotation curve determines one function in the metric without assuming Einstein's equations. Then lensing is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-26 Gunter Scharf , Gerhard Braunlich

In this manuscript, we present an alternative method for calculating null geodesics in General Static Isotropic Metrics in General Relativity and Extended Theories of Gravity. By applying a conformal transformation, we are able to consider…

In gravitational lensing, the usual viewpoint is that light bending measures how a ray deviates from a straight line in Euclidean space. In this work, we take the opposite perspective: we ask how a straight line bends in a curved space,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Zonghai Li , Xiao-Jun Gao

This paper provides an analytical examination of non-radial geodesics within the context of the spatially flat Friedmann Lema\^itre Robertson Walker (FLRW) spacetime. Using the symmetry properties of the system, two constants of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Omar Nemoul , Hichem Guergouri , Jamal Mimouni

The deflection angle of equatorial light (the light in the equatorial plane) in Kerr-de Sitter (KdS) spacetime was previously calculated by Sultana [\href{https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.042003}{Phys. Rev. D 88,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Yang Huang , Xiangyun Fu

In this work, we develop a general perturbative procedure to find the off-equatorial plane deflections in the weak deflection limit in general stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes, allowing the existence of the generalized Carter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Xinguang Ying , Junji Jia

We investigate the semiclassical approach to the lensing of photons in a spherically symmetric gravitational background, starting from Born level and include in our analysis the radiative corrections obtained from the electroweak theory for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-29 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Matteo Maria Maglio , Mirko Serino

We solve in closed analytic form space-like geodesic equations in the Kerr gravitational field. Such geodesic equations describe the motion of neutral tachyons (faster than light particles) in the Kerr spacetime. More specifically we derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-13 G. V. Kraniotis

Gravitational lensing constitutes one of the most direct observational manifestations of spacetime curvature and provides a powerful probe of compact astrophysical objects. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of the bending of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Partha Pratim Basumallick , Saheb Das , Bhaswati Mandal , Subhadip Sau

Lensing in a spherically symmetric and static spacetime is considered, based on the lightlike geodesic equation without approximations. After fixing two radius values r_O and r_S, lensing for an observation event somewhere at r_O and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-23 Volker Perlick

Near a gravitating compact object, massive particles traveling along timelike geodesics are gravitationally deflected similarly to light. In this paper, we study the deflection angles of these particles in the strong deflection limit. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We derive the full set of field equations based on Hossenfelder's recent covariant formulation of the emergent gravity model, along with perturbative and exact solutions. The exact solution describes a static, spherically-symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Yen-Kheng Lim , Qing-hai Wang

Recent studies suggest that the cosmological constant affects the gravitational bending of photons although the orbital equation for light in Schwarzschild-de Sitter space time is free from cosmological constant. Here we argued that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Arunava Bhadra , Swarnadeep Biswas , Kabita Sarkar

The gravitational field of an idealized plane-wave solution of the Maxwell equations can be described in closed form. After discussing this particular solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations, the motion of neutral test particles, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Jan . W. van Holten

We perform a detailed study of the geodesic equations in the spacetime of the static and rotating charged black hole corresponding to the Kerr-Newman-(A)dS spacetime. We derive the equations of motion for test particles and light rays and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-02 Saheb Soroushfar , Reza Saffari , Sobhan Kazempour , Saskia Grunau , Jutta Kunz

We study the light rays in a static and spherically symmetric gravitational field of null aether theory (NAT). To this end, we employ the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to compute the deflection angle by a NAT black hole in the weak limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 A. Övgün , İ. Sakallı , J. Saavedra