Electrogeodesics in the di-hole Majumdar-Papapetrou spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/20/205010zbMATH Open1327.83179arXiv1510.02314OpenAlexW3103995333MaRDI QIDQ3453166FDOQ3453166

Martin Žofka, Jiří Ryzner

Publication date: 20 November 2015

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the (electro-)geodesic structure of the Majumdar-Papapetrou solution representing static charged black holes in equilibrium. We assume only two point sources, imparting thus the spacetime axial symmetry. We study electrogeodesics both in and off the equatorial plane and explore the stability of circular trajectories via geodesic deviation equation. In contrast to the classical Newtonian situation, we find regions of spacetime admitting two different angular frequencies for a given radius of the circular electrogeodesic. We look both at the weak- and near-field limits of the solution. We use analytic as well as numerical methods in our approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02314

zbMATH Keywords

black holeMajumdar-Papapetrouelectrogeodesicextreme Reissner-Nordström

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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