The generalized Jacobi equation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/16/301MaRDI QIDQ3149330zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Chicone, B. Mashhoon

Publication date 25 September 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203073, http://hdl.handle.net/10355/8574

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: The Jacobi equation in pseudo-Riemannian geometry determines the linearized geodesic flow. The linearization ignores the relative velocity of the geodesics. The generalized Jacobi equation takes the relative velocity into account; that is, when the geodesics are neighboring but their relative velocity is arbitrary the corresponding geodesic deviation equation is the generalized Jacobi equation. The Hamiltonian structure of this nonlinear equation is analyzed in this paper. The tidal accelerations for test particles in the field of a plane gravitational wave and the exterior field of a rotating mass are investigated. In the latter case, the existence of an attractor of uniform relative radial motion with speed $2^{-1/2}capprox0.7c$ is pointed out. The astrophysical implications of this result for the terminal speed of a relativistic jet is briefly explored.

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