Motion of charged particles in a NUTty Einstein-Maxwell spacetime and causality violation

DOI10.1007/S10714-018-2388-YzbMATH Open1392.83019arXiv1606.08457OpenAlexW2801015765WikidataQ129821092 ScholiaQ129821092MaRDI QIDQ725316FDOQ725316

Gérard Clément, Mourad Guenouche

Publication date: 1 August 2018

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

Abstract: We investigate the motion of electrically charged test particles in spacetimes with closed timelike curves, a subset of the black hole or wormhole Reissner-Nordstr"om-NUT spacetimes without periodic identification of time. We show that, while in the wormhole case there are closed worldlines inside a potential well, the wordlines of initially distant charged observers moving under the action of the Lorentz force can never close or self-intersect. This means that for these observers causality is preserved, which is an instance of our weak chronology protection criterion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08457

zbMATH Keywords

causalityblack holeclosed timelike curvescharged test particlechronology protection criterionEinstein-Maxwell equationNUT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Black holes (83C57)

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• Critical escape velocity for a charged particle in Ernst spacetime
• How appropriate are the gravitational entropy proposals for traversable wormholes?
• Misner gravitational charges and variable string strengths
• The equatorial motion of the charged test particles in Kerr-Newman-Taub-NUT spacetime
• Thermodynamics of rotating NUTty dyons
• Balanced magnetized double black holes
• The motion of a charged particle in a spacetime with a conformal metric
• The first law for rotating NUTs
• On the Smarr formulas for electrovac spacetimes with line singularities

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