Gödel spacetime, planar geodesics and the Möbius map

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02731-WMaRDI QIDQ2226055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donato Bini, Wolfango Plastino, Andrea Geralico, Robert T. Jantzen

Publication date 11 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11432

zbMATH Keywords

Gödel spacetimeMöbius transformationstimelike geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: Timelike geodesics on a hyperplane orthogonal to the symmetry axis of the G"odel spacetime appear to be elliptic-like if standard coordinates naturally adapted to the cylindrical symmetry are used. The orbit can then be suitably described through an eccentricity-semi-latus rectum parametrization, familiar from the Newtonian dynamics of a two-body system. However, changing coordinates such planar geodesics all become explicitly circular, as exhibited by Kundt's form of the G"odel metric. We derive here a one-to-one correspondence between the constants of the motion along these geodesics as well as between the parameter spaces of elliptic-like versus circular geodesics. We also show how to connect the two equivalent descriptions of particle motion by introducing a pair of complex coordinates in the 2-planes orthogonal to the symmetry axis, which brings the metric into a form which is invariant under M"obius transformations preserving the symmetries of the orbit, i.e., taking circles to circles.

Review text

The authors examine the geodesics in a Godel metric, using the Kundt's form of this metric. Questions of interest for authors: symmetries, conserved quantities, causality. The apparatus of Killing vectors is used throughout the article. The authors derive a one-to-one correspondence between the parameter space of elliptic-like geodesics as compared with circular orbits. They show how to connect the 2 equivalent descriptions of particle motion by introducing a pair of complex coordinates in the 2-planes orthogonal to the symmetry axis which brings the metric into a form which is invariant under Möbius transformations preserving the symmetries of the orbit. The article lasts the impression of almost exhaustive investigation of the problem.

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