Kinematic relative velocity with respect to stationary observers in Schwarzschild spacetime

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.12.005MaRDI QIDQ1947586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors V. J. Bolós

Publication date 22 April 2013

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0884

zbMATH Keywords

Schwarzschild spacetimestationary observerrelative velocitytest particleNewtonian behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We study the kinematic relative velocity of general test particles with respect to stationary observers (using spherical coordinates) in Schwarzschild spacetime, obtaining that its modulus does not depend on the observer, unlike Fermi, spectroscopic and astrometric relative velocities. We study some fundamental particular cases, generalizing some results given in other work about stationary and radial free-falling test particles. Moreover, we give a new result about test particles with circular geodesic orbits: the modulus of their kinematic relative velocity with respect to any stationary observer depends only on the radius of the circular orbit, and so, it remains constant.

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