Free fall equation with a signal delay

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Authors R. T. Faizullin

Publication date 24 February 2002

Published in Matematicheskie Struktury i Modelirovanie (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansiongravity radius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of functional-differential equations (34K05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Review text

To derive the simplest free fall equation of a body of unit mass onto a body of mass \(M\) of the form \(\ddot{x}(t)=-M/x^2(t)\), one has to adopt that the velocity of the gravity interaction is infinite. Assuming that the velocity of the gravity interaction is a finite number \(c\) and that the fraction \(x/c\) is small, the author obtains another free fall equation \(\ddot{x}(t)=-Mx^{-2}(t)\bigl(t-2c^{-1}x(t)\bigr)^{-1}\). He finds the following conditions for existence of smooth solutions to the new equation with delay: \(\dot{x}/c>1\) and \(R_g/x>1\).

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