The motion of small bodies in space-time

DOI10.1007/S00220-018-3268-8zbMath1401.83006arXiv1707.04222OpenAlexW2735358982WikidataQ129103892 ScholiaQ129103892MaRDI QIDQ1989853

Robert Geroch, James Owen Weatherall

Publication date: 29 October 2018

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04222

zbMATH Keywords

timelike geodesicssmall bodiesmotionMaxwellspace-timeKlein-Gordon fieldscharged bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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