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We analyse the massless particles orbiting a spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole with a radius equal to the photon sphere and a circular geodesic. Asymptotic observers record the orbital period of the null circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-24 Yuxuan Shi

We give a precise theoretical description of initially aligned sets of orthogonal gyroscopes which are transported along different paths from some initial point to the same final point in spacetime. These gyroscope systems can be used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-30 Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth , Christian Pfeifer

Astrophysical observations provide compelling evidence for the existence of dark matter, a non-luminous component dominating the universe's mass-energy budget. Its gravitational influence is well-established on galactic scales; however,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-06 Jan Kuncewicz

The notion of spacetime symmetry is essential to describe gravitating physical systems like planets, stars, black holes, or the universe as a whole, since they possess, at least to good approximation, spherical, axial, or spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Christian Pfeifer

Through a M\"obius transformation, we study aspects like topology, ligth cones, horizons, curvature singularity, lines of constant Schwarzschild coordinates $r$ and $t$, null geodesics, and transformed metric, of the spacetime…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Miguel Socolovsky

We derive precise late-time asymptotics for solutions to the wave equation on spherically symmetric, stationary and asymptotically flat spacetimes including as special cases the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom families of black holes.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Yannis Angelopoulos , Stefanos Aretakis , Dejan Gajic

We derive general relativistic Gaussian equations for osculating elements for orbits under the influence of a perturbing force without any restrictions in an underlying Schwarzschild space-time. Such a formulation provides a way to describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Oleksii Yanchyshen , Eva Hackmann , Claus Lämmerzahl

The studies of influence of spin on a photon's motion in a Schwartzschild spacetime is continued. In the previous paper [13] the first order correction to the geodesic motion is found for the first half of the photon world line. The system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Z. Y. Turakulov , A. T. Muminov

The study investigates orbital motion of test particles near compact objects described by solutions involving massless scalar fields, electromagnetic fields, and nonlinear electrodynamics. Specifically, we analyze orbital dynamics in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 J. Horák , T. Tahamtan , T. Hale , G. Török , A. Kotrlová , E. Šrámková

Spin of a test particle is a fundamental property that can affect its motion in a gravitational field. In this work we consider the effect of particle spin on its deflection angle and gravitational lensing in the equatorial plane of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Zhuoming Zhang , Gaofeng Fan , Junji Jia

A coordinate-free approach to limits of spacetimes is developed. The limits of the Schwarzschild metric as the mass parameter tends to 0 or $\infty$ are studied, extending previous results. Besides the known Petrov type D and 0 limits,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 F. M. Paiva , M. J. Rebouças , M. A. H. MacCallum

This article investigates the presence of a static spherically symmetric solution in the metric f(R) gravity. Consequently, we have examined the presence of horizons for the extreme and hyperextreme Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Devansh Shukla , Kamlesh Pathak

For a Schwarzchild black hole of mass $M$, we consider a test particle falling from rest at infinity and becoming trapped, at late time, on the unstable circular orbit of radius $r=4GM/c^2$. When the particle is endowed with a small mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Leor Barack , Marta Colleoni , Thibault Damour , Soichiro Isoyama , Norichika Sago

The Conformal Einstein equations and the representation of spatial infinity as a cylinder introduced by Friedrich are used to analyse the behaviour of the gravitational field near null and spatial infinity for the development of data which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Valiente Kroon

The equations of general relativity in the form of timelike and null geodesics that describe motion of test particles and photons in Kerr spacetime are solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. We then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. V. Kraniotis

We consider the projection of null geodesics of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric in n+1 dimensions to the space of orbits of the static Killing vector where the motion of a given light ray is seen to lie in a plane. The projected curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen Casey

Schwarzschild's solution to the Einstein Field Equations was one of the first and most important solutions that lead to the understanding and important experimental tests of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. However, Schwarzschild's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. van den Hoogen

We investigate how GWs pass through the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole using time-domain numerical simulations. Our work is based on the perturbed 3+1 Einstein's equations up to the linear order. We show explicitly that our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 Jian-hua He , Zhenyu Wu

A unified description of all interactions could be based on a higher-dimensional theory involving only spinor fields. The metric arises as a composite object and the gravitational field equations contain torsion-corrections as compared to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 A. Hebecker , C. Wetterich

We analyze the gravitational radiation emitted from a particle in circular motion around a Schwarzschild black hole using the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime at tree level. The gravitational perturbations are written…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-03 Rafael P. Bernar , Luís C. B. Crispino , Atsushi Higuchi