Published November 15, 1974
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Journal article
Behavior of spacelike geodesics in the extended Schwarzschild manifold
Creators
- 1. Scarborough College and Department of Physics, University of Toronto, West Hill, Ontario, Canada
Description
We demonstrate that there exist unstable, spacelike, circular orbits in the Schwarzschild field for all radii in the range 0<r<3m. The conditions under which spacelike trajectories bend toward or away from the source of the field are derived for the entire r-φ plane. We show that any nonradial spacelike geodesic with turning point less than 2m will appear spacelike over the entire u-v plane. The scattering and capture cross sections for a particle on a spacelike trajectory are evaluated. Finally, we suggest that there are compelling reasons for rejecting the usual assumption of a global past-future relation in the extended Schwarzschild manifold.
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review D
- Journal Volume
- 10
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3155-3161
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 6188396
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CAPTURE; CROSS SECTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEODESY; ORBITS; SCATTERING; SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC; SCHWARZSCHILD RADIUS; TRAJECTORIES
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; METRICS
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