Epicyclic Orbital oscillations in Newton's and Einstein's gravity from the geodesic deviation equation

DOI10.1023/A:1024599021730MaRDI QIDQ1404030zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors M. Biesiada

Publication date 20 August 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0303083

zbMATH Keywords

epicyclic oscillationsgeodesic deviationJacobi geometrySchwarzschild spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

Abstract: In a recent paper Abramowicz and Klu{'z}niak have discussed the problem of epicyclic oscillations in Newton's and Einstein's dynamics and have shown that Newton's dynamics in a properly curved three-dimensional space is identical to test-body dynamics in the three-dimensional optical geometry of Schwarzschild space-time. One of the main results of this paper was the proof that different behaviour of radial epicyclic frequency and Keplerian frequency in Newtonian and General Relativistic regimes had purely geometric origin contrary to claims that nonlinearity of Einstein's theory was responsible for this effect. In this paper we obtain the same result from another perspective: by representing these two distinct problems (Newtonian and Einstein's test body motion in central gravitational field) in a uniform way -- as a geodesic motion. The solution of geodesic deviation equation reproduces the well known results concerning epicyclic frequencies and clearly demonstrates geometric origin of the difference between Newtonian and Einstein's problems.

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