Existence and stability of circular orbits in general static and spherically symmetric spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2337-1MaRDI QIDQ1640776zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Junji Jia, Xionghui Liu, Zhongyou Mo, Xiankai Pang, Yaoguang Wang, Nan Yang, Jiawei Liu

Publication date 14 June 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05889

zbMATH Keywords

circular orbitfixed pointspherically symmetric spacetimestabilitystatic spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: The existence and stability of circular orbits (CO) in static and spherically symmetric (SSS) spacetime are important because of their practical and potential usefulness. In this paper, using the fixed point method, we first prove a necessary and sufficient condition on the metric function for the existence of timelike COs in SSS spacetimes. After analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the metric, we then show that asymptotic flat SSS spacetime that corresponds to a negative Newtonian potential at large $r$ will always allow the existence of CO. The stability of the CO in a general SSS spacetime is then studied using the Lyapunov exponent method. Two sufficient conditions on the (in)stability of the COs are obtained. For null geodesics, a sufficient condition on the metric function for the (in)stability of null CO is also obtained. We then illustrate one powerful application of these results by showing that an SU(2) Yang-Mills-Einstein SSS spacetime whose metric function is not known, will allow the existence of timelike COs. We also used our results to assert the existence and (in)stabilities of a number of known SSS metrics.

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