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A new geometric method to determine the deflection of light in the equatorial plane of the Kerr solution is presented, whose optical geometry is a surface with a Finsler metric of Randers type. Applying the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 M. C. Werner

The Gibbons-Werner method where the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is applied to study the gravitational deflection angle has received much attention recently. In this paper, we study the equivalence of the Gibbons-Werner method to the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-24 Zonghai Li , Tao Zhou

In this review, various researches on finding the bending angle of light deflected by a massive gravitating object which regard the Gauss-Bonnet theorem as the premise have been revised. Primarily, the Gibbons and Werner method is studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Yashmitha Kumaran , Ali Övgün

In this geometrical approach to gravitational lensing theory, we apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the optical metric of a lens, modelled as a static, spherically symmetric, perfect non-relativistic fluid, in the weak deflection limit. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 G W Gibbons , M C Werner

The Gibbons-Werner (GW) method provides a geometric framework for calculating the deflection angle of particles in curved spacetimes, and numerous extensions based on the original version have been developed in recent years to expand its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Yang Huang

The Gibbons-Werner method for the gravitational deflection angle of unbound particles in static spherically symmetric spacetimes is based on Jacobi metric and Gauss-Bonnet theorem. When it is extended to bound massive particles, there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-30 Yang Huang , Bing Sun , Zhoujian Cao

In this paper the deflection angle of light by a rotating Teo wormhole spacetime is calculated in the weak limit approximation. We mainly focus on the weak deflection angle by revealing the gravitational lensing as a partially global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün

In this paper, we study the weak gravitational deflection of relativistic massive particles for a receiver and source at finite distance from the lens in stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetimes. For this purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia

We present a framework that reformulates gravitational lensing as an optical phenomenon governed by an effective refractive index, enabling exploration of modified gravity theories using undergraduate-level mathematics and optics. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Romy Hanang Setya Budhi

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

For a general class of analytic $f(R,R_{\alpha\beta}R^{\alpha\beta},R_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta}R^{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta})$ we discuss the gravitational lensing in the Newtonian Limit of theory. From the properties of Gauss Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Stabile , An. Stabile

In this research, we use the Gibbons-Werner method (Gauss-Bonnet theorem) on the optical geometry of a black hole and wormhole, extending the calculation of the weak gravitational lensing within the Maxwell's fish eye-like profile and dark…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Ali Övgün

Compact objects with magnetic dipole are considered as gravitational lenses. The presence of strong magnetic field near the photon sphere can affect the trajectory of light. We compute the deflection angle near the photon sphere on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Young Kim

Recently, we proposed a generalized Gibbons-Werner (GW) method for analyzing particle trajectories in rotating spacetimes, regardless of their asymptotic behavior [Huang \textit{et al.},…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Yang Huang , Xiangyun Fu , Zhenyan Lu , Xin Qin

This paper studies the deflection of charged particles in a dipole magnetic field in Schwarzschild spacetime background in the weak field approximation. To calculate the deflection angle, we use Jacobi metric and Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Zonghai Li , Wei Wang , Junji Jia

The Gibbons-Werner (GW) method is a powerful approach in studying the gravitational deflection of particles moving in curved spacetimes. The application of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem (GBT) to integral regions constructed in a two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Yang Huang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhenyan Lu

We pursue a geometrical approach to gravitational lensing theory. We present a survey of the background theory of General Relativity, including particular properties of the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions. Next we outline a proof of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Cameron Bloomer

This paper uses the Schwarzschild metric to derive an effective refractive index and acceleration vector that account for relativistic deflection of light rays, in an otherwise classical kinematic framework. The new refractive index and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes , P. D. Jarvis

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

In this letter, we have investigated the deflection angle of light by wormholes using a new geometrical method known as Gibbons-Werner method (GW). In particular we have calculated the deflection angle of light in the weak limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-22 Kimet Jusufi
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