Chaotic particle motion around a homogeneous circular ring
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-08-18 v3 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We consider test particle motion in a gravitational field generated by a homogeneous circular ring placed in -dimensional Euclidean space. We observe that there exist no stable stationary orbits in but exist in and clarify the regions in which they appear. In , we show that the separation of variables of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation does not occur though we find no signs of chaos for stable bound orbits. Since the system is integrable in , no chaos appears. In , we find some chaotic stable bound orbits. Therefore, this system is nonintegrable at least in and suggests that the timelike geodesic system in the corresponding black ring spacetimes is nonintegrable.
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@article{arxiv.2006.05052,
title = {Chaotic particle motion around a homogeneous circular ring},
author = {Takahisa Igata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05052},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
21 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revision, add references; v3: published version