Geodesics in black hole space-times

DOI10.1007/BF00756902zbMath0433.53052MaRDI QIDQ1139300

N. A. Sharp

Publication date: 1979

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics; equations of motion; black holes; Kerr-Newman geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

83C20: Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

83C10: Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory

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