A theory of thin shells with orbiting constituents

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Abstract: The self-gravitating, spherically symmetric thin shells built of orbiting particles are sstudied. Two new features are found. One is the minimal possible value for an angular momentum of particles, above which elleptic orbits become possible. The second is the coexistence of both the wormhole solutions and the elleptic or hyperbolic orbits for the same values of the parameters (but different initial conditions). Possible applications of these results to astrophysics and quantum black holes are briefly discussed.


In this paper, spherically symmetric self-gravitating thin shells with orbiting constituents (special configuration of dust particles that follow elliptic or hyperbolic orbits) are studied. Two differences from geodesic motion in the Schwarzschild geometry are found: 1) the existence of minimal possible critical value for angular momentum at which it becomes possible for particles to have an elliptic orbit; 2) the coexistence of elliptic (or hyperbolic) orbits and wormhole solution for the same values of parameters.











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