Klein-Gordon equation in curved space-time

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AABDDEMaRDI QIDQ4683473zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. D. Lehn, Sophia S. Chabysheva, John R. Hiller

Publication date 21 September 2018

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00735

zbMATH Keywords

computational physicsgravitational bindingKlein-Gordon equationstatic spherical space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: We solve the relativistic Klein--Gordon equation for a light particle gravitationally bound to a heavy central mass, with the gravitational interaction prescribed by the metric of a spherically symmetric space-time. Metrics are considered for an impenetrable sphere, a soft sphere of uniform density, and a soft sphere with a linear transition from constant to zero density; in each case the radius of the central mass is chosen to be sufficient to avoid any event horizon. The solutions are obtained numerically and compared with nonrelativistic Coulomb-type solutions, both directly and in perturbation theory, to study the general-relativistic corrections to the quantum solutions for a $1/r$ potential. The density profile with a linear transition is chosen to avoid singularities in the wave equation that can be caused by a discontinuous derivative of the density.

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