Timelike trajectories with fixed energy under a potential in static spacetimes

By variational methods, we study the motions of a relativistic particle under the action of an external scalar potential. We consider standard static spacetimes whose metric coefficients grow at most quadratically at infinity. Fixing suitable values for the energy, we obtain timelike trajectories.

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Main Author: Anna Germinario
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2006-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/IJMMS/2006/86952
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Summary:By variational methods, we study the motions of a relativistic particle under the action of an external scalar potential. We consider standard static spacetimes whose metric coefficients grow at most quadratically at infinity. Fixing suitable values for the energy, we obtain timelike trajectories.
ISSN:0161-1712
1687-0425