Radial Geodesics Research Articles

On the integrability of the geodesic flow on a Friedmann–Robertson–Walker spacetime

We study the geodesic flow on the cotangent bundle of a Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) spacetime (M, g). On this bundle, the Hamilton–Jacobi equation is completely separable and this property allows us to construct four linearly independent integrals in involution, i.e. Poisson commuting amongst themselves and pointwise linearly independent. As a consequence, the geodesic flow on an FRW background is completely integrable in the Liouville–Arnold sense. For a spatially flat or spatially closed universe, we construct submanifolds that remain invariant under the action of the flow. For a spatially closed universe these submanifolds are topologically R × S1 × S1 × S1, while for a spatially flat universe they are topologically R × R × S1 × S1. However, due to the highly symmetrical nature of the background spacetime, the four integrals in involution also admit regions where they fail to be linearly independent. We identify these regions although we have not been able in a mathematically rigorous fashion to describe the structure of the associated invariant submanifolds. Nevertheless, the phase space trajectories contained in these submanifolds when projected on the base manifold describe radial timelike geodesics or timelike geodesics ‘comoving’ with the cosmological expansion.

The eternal naked singularity formation in the case of gravitational collapse of generalized Vaidya space–time

In this paper, we consider the gravitational collapse of generalized Vaidya space–time when the matter satisfies the equation of the state either [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text]. We show that in the case when type I of matter field is dust, then the apparent horizon will never appear but there is no a family of null radial future-directed geodesics which terminate at the central singularity in the past. Also, we show that in the case of negative pressure, the result of the gravitational collapse might be the naked singularity and the apparent horizon appears and in very short time disappears again. In the case of the negative pressure, we show that the result of the gravitational collapse might be the eternal naked singularity.

Tidal Forces in Dyonic Reissner-Nördstrom Black Hole

This paper investigates the tidal as well as magnetic charge effects produced in dyonic Reissner-Nordström black hole. We evaluate Newtonian radial acceleration using radial geodesics for freely falling test particles. We establish system of equations governing radial and angular tidal forces using geodesic deviation equation and discuss their solutions for bodies falling freely towards this black hole. The radial tidal force turns out to be compressing outside the event horizon whereas the angular tidal force changes sign between event and Cauchy horizons unlike Schwarzschild black hole. The radial geodesic component starts decreasing in dyonic Reissner-Nordström black hole unlike Schwarzschild case. We conclude that magnetic charge strongly affects the radial as well as angular components of tidal force.

The geodesics structure of Schwarzschild black hole immersed in an electromagnetic universe

The geodesic equations are considered in a spacetime that represents a Schwarzschild metric coupled to a uniform external electromagnetic (em) field. Due to the em field horizon shrinks and geodesics are modified. By analyzing the behavior of the effective potentials for the massless and massive particle we study the radial and circular trajectories. Radial geodesics for both photons and particles are solved exactly. It is shown that a particle that falls toward the horizon in a finite proper time slows down so that the particle reaches the singularity slower than Schwarzschild case. Timelike and null circular geodesics are investigated. We have shown that, there are no stable circular orbits for photons, however stable and unstable second-kind orbits exist for the massive particle. An exact analytical solution for the innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) has been obtained. It has been shown that the radius of the ISCO shrinks due to the presence of the em field.

Local properties and global structure of McVittie spacetimes with non-flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker backgrounds

McVittie spacetimes embed the vacuum Schwarzschild(-(anti) de Sitter) spacetime in an isotropic, Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) background universe. The global structure of such spacetimes is well understood when the FLRW background is spatially flat. In this paper, we study the global structure of McVittie spacetimes with spatially non-flat FLRW backgrounds. We derive some basic results on the metric, curvature and matter content of these spacetimes and provide a representation of the metric that makes the study of their global properties possible. In the closed case, we find that at each instant of time, the spacetime is confined to a region bounded by a (positive) minimum and a maximum area radius, and is bounded either to the future or to the past by a scalar curvature singularity. This allowed region only exists when the background scale factor is above a certain minimum, and so is bounded away from the Big Bang singularity, as in the flat case. In the open case, the situation is different, and we focus mainly on this case. In McVittie spacetimes, radial null geodesics originate in finite affine time in the past at a boundary formed by the union of the Big Bang singularity of the FLRW background and a hypersurface (of varying causal character) which is non-singular in the sense of scalar curvature. Furthermore, in the case of eternally expanding open universes with , we prove that black holes are ubiquitous: ingoing radial null geodesics extend in finite affine time to a hypersurface that forms the boundary of the region from which photons can escape to future null infinity. We determine the structure of the conformal diagrams that can arise in the open case. Finally, we revisit the black hole interpretation of McVittie spacetimes in the spatially flat case, and show that this interpretation holds also in the case of a vanishing cosmological constant, contrary to a previous claim of ours.

Axially Symmetric Null Dust Space-Time, Naked Singularity, and Cosmic Time Machine

We present a gravitational collapse null dust solution of the Einstein field equations. The space-time is regular everywhere except on the symmetry axis where it possesses a naked curvature singularity and admits one parameter isometry group, a generator of axial symmetry along the cylinder which has closed orbits. The space-time admits closed timelike curves (CTCs) which develop at some particular moment in a causally well-behaved manner and may represent a Cosmic Time Machine. The radial geodesics near the singularity and the gravitational lensing (GL) will be discussed. The physical interpretation of this solution, based on the study of the equation of the geodesic deviation, will be presented. It was demonstrated that this solution depends on the local gravitational field consisting of two components with amplitudes Ψ2 and Ψ4.

Hawking-Like Radiation from the Trapping Horizon of Both Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Spherically Symmetric Spacetime Model of the Universe

The present work deals with the semi-classical tunnelling approach and the Hamilton–Jacobi method to study Hawking radiation from the dynamical horizon of both the homogeneous Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) model and the inhomogeneous Lemaitre–Tolman–Bondi (LTB) model of the Universe. In the tunnelling prescription, radial null geodesics are used to visualize particles from behind the trapping horizon and the Hawking-like temperature has been calculated. On the other hand, in the Hamilton–Jacobi formulation, quantum corrections have been incorporated by solving the Klein–Gordon wave equation. In both the approaches, the temperature agrees at the semiclassical level.

Wormhole geometries in fourth-order conformal Weyl gravity

We present an analysis of the classic wormhole geometries based on conformal Weyl gravity, rather than standard general relativity. The main characteristics of the resulting traversable wormholes remains the same as in the seminal study by Morris and Thorne, namely, that effective super-luminal motion is a viable consequence of the metric. Improving on previous work on the subject, we show that for particular choices of the shape and redshift functions the wormhole metric in the context of conformal gravity does not violate the main energy conditions at or near the wormhole throat. Some exotic matter might still be needed at the junction between our solutions and flat spacetime, but we demonstrate that the averaged null energy condition (as evaluated along radial null geodesics) is satisfied for a particular set of wormhole geometries. Therefore, if fourth-order conformal Weyl gravity is a correct extension of general relativity, traversable wormholes might become a realistic solution for interstellar travel.

Probing crunching AdS cosmologies

Holographic gravity duals of deformations of CFTs formulated on de Sitter spacetime contain FRW geometries behind a horizon, with cosmological big crunch singularities. Using a specific analytically tractable solution within a particular single scalar truncation of N=8 supergravity on AdS_4, we first probe such crunching cosmologies with spacelike radial geodesics that compute spatially antipodal correlators of large dimension boundary operators. At late times, the geodesics lie on the FRW slice of maximal expansion behind the horizon. The late time two-point functions factorise, and when transformed to the Einstein static universe, they exhibit a temporal non-analyticity determined by the maximal value of the scale factor a_{max} . Radial geodesics connecting antipodal points necessarily have de Sitter energy E \leq a_{max}, while geodesics with E > a_{max} terminate at the crunch, the two categories of geodesics being separated by the maximal expansion slice. The spacelike crunch singularity is curved "outward" in the Penrose diagram for the deformed AdS backgrounds, and thus geodesic limits of the antipodal correlators do not directly probe the crunch. Beyond the geodesic limit, we point out that the scalar wave equation, analytically continued into the FRW patch, has a potential which is singular at the crunch along with complex WKB turning points in the vicinity of the FRW crunch. We then argue that the frequency space Green's function has a branch point determined by a_{max} which corresponds to the lowest quasinormal frequency.

Motion of test particles in the field of a naked singularity

We investigate the motion of test particles in the gravitational field of a static naked singularity generated by a mass distribution with quadrupole moment. We use the quadrupole-metric ($q-$metric) which is the simplest generalization of the Schwarzschild metric with a quadrupole parameter. We study the influence of the quadrupole on the motion of massive test particles and photons and show that the behavior of the geodesics can drastically depend on the values of the quadrupole parameter. In particular, we prove explicitly that the perihelion distance depends on the value of the quadrupole. Moreover, we show that an accretion disk on the equatorial plane of the quadrupole source can be either continuous or discrete, depending on the value of the quadrupole. The inner radius of the disk can be used in certain cases to determine the value of the quadrupole parameter. The case of a discrete accretion is interpreted as due to the presence of repulsive gravity generated by the naked singularity. Radial geodesics are also investigated and compared with the Schwarzschild counterparts.

Analyzing the radial geodesics of the Campanelli–Lousto solutions

When dealing with a spacetime, one usually searches for singularities, black holes, white holes and wormholes due to their importance to the motion of particles. There is a family of solution of the Brans-Dicke vacuum equations that has not been fully studied from this perspective. In this paper, I study some properties of this family and find the complete set of solutions that avoids singularity at the point where the metric diverges or degenerates. The possible changes in the metric signature when passing through this point is analyzed. In addition, I also study the radial geodesics and obtain the solutions of some particular cases.

Generalized Schwarzschild–de Sitter model of a spherically symmetric pseudo-Riemannian space

In the model under consideration, we construct a metric of the space satisfying the system of special gravitational equations. The conditions for the continuity of the metric in the entire space are put forward. A solution of the system of differential equations for geodesics is found. The behavior of radial geodesics under various conditions is studied.

Nonsingular Black Holes in ƒ (R) Theories

We study the structure of a family of static, spherically symmetric space-times generated by an anisotropic fluid and governed by a particular type of f(R) theory. We find that for a range of parameters with physical interest, such solutions represent black holes with the central singularity replaced by a finite size wormhole. We show that time-like geodesics and null geodesics with nonzero angular momentum never reach the wormhole throat due to an infinite potential barrier. For null radial geodesics, it takes an infinite affine time to reach the wormhole. This means that the resulting space-time is geodesically complete and, therefore, nonsingular despite the generic existence of curvature divergences at the wormhole throat.

Geodesic structure of five-dimensional nonasymptotically flat 2-branes

We study the geodesics of a five dimensional non-asymptotically flat dilatonic 2-brane. Although the metric's warp function diverges logarithmically in the far field region of the transverse space, the curvature does not. The brane has two naked singularities, the usual central singularity and a circular singularity at the radius where the warp function vanishes. This creates two causally disconnected regions of the transverse space. Using the methods of energy conservation and effective potentials we study the null and timelike orbital and radial geodesics in both regions and show that they exhibit opposing energy requirements.

Coordinate families for the Schwarzschild geometry based on radial timelike geodesics

We explore the connections between various coordinate systems associated with observers moving inwardly along radial geodesics in the Schwarzschild geometry. Painlevé–Gullstrand (PG) time is adapted to freely falling observers dropped from rest from infinity; Lake–Martel–Poisson (LMP) time coordinates are adapted to observers who start at infinity with non-zero initial inward velocity; Gautreau–Hoffmann time coordinates are adapted to observers dropped from rest from a finite distance from the black hole horizon. We construct from these an LMP family and a proper-time family of time coordinates, the intersection of which is PG time. We demonstrate that these coordinate families are distinct, but related, one-parameter generalizations of PG time, and show linkage to Lemaître coordinates as well.

Methods for studying the accuracy of light propagation inN-body simulations

It is proposed to use exact, cosmologically relevant solutions to Einstein's equations to accurately quantify the precision of ray tracing techniques through Newtonian N-body simulations. As an initial example of such a study, the recipe in (Green & Wald, 2012) for going between N-body results and a perturbed FLRW metric in the Newtonian gauge is used to study light propagation through quasi-spherical Szekeres models. The study is conducted by deriving a set of ODEs giving an expression for the angular diameter distance in the Newtonian gauge metric. The accuracy of the results obtained from the ODEs is estimated by using the ODEs to determine the distance-redshift relation in mock N-body data based on quasi-spherical Szekeres models. The results are then compared to the exact relations. From this comparison it is seen that the obtained ODEs can accurately reproduce the distance-redshift relation along both radial and non-radial geodesics in spherically symmetric models. The reproduction of geodesics in non-symmetric Szekeres models is slightly less accurate, but still good. These results indicate that the employment of perturbed FLRW metrics for standard ray tracing techniques yields fairly accurate results, at least regarding distance-redshift relations. It is possible though, that this conclusion will be rendered invalid if other typical ray tracing approximations are included and if light is allowed to travel through several structures instead of just one.

Geodesic motion in Schwarzschild spacetime surrounded by quintessence

We study the time-like geodesic congruences, in the space-time geometry of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence. The nature of effective potential along with the structure of the possible orbits for test particles in view of the different values of quintessence parameter are analysed in detail. %wherever possible it is done analytically otherwise numerically. An increase in quintessence parameter is seen to set the particles from farther distance into motion around black hole. The effect of quintessence parameter is investigated analytically wherever possible otherwise we perform the numerical analysis to probe the structure of possible orbits. It is observed that there exist a number of different possible orbits for a test particle in case of non-radial geodesics, such as circular (stable as well as unstable) bound orbits, radially plunge and fly-by orbits, whereas no bound orbits exist in case of radial geodesics. Using the geodesic deviation equations, we obtain the corresponding deviation vector and find that the quintessence assists the divergence of neighbouring geodesics in both the radial and transverse directions.

Jacobi Fields and Conjugate Points on Timelike Geodesics in Special Spacetimes

Several physical problems such as the `twin paradox' in curved spacetimes have purely geometrical nature and may be reduced to studying properties of bundles of timelike geodesics. The paper is a general introduction to systematic investigations of the geodesic structure of physically relevant spacetimes. The investigations are focussed on the search of locally and globally maximal timelike geodesics. The method of dealing with the local problem is in a sense algorithmic and is based on the geodesic deviation equation. Yet the search for globally maximal geodesics is non-algorithmic and cannot be treated analytically by solving a differential equation. Here one must apply a mixture of methods: spacetime symmetries (we have effectively employed the spherical symmetry), the use of the comoving coordinates adapted to the given congruence of timelike geodesics and the conjugate points on these geodesics. All these methods have been effectively applied in both the local and global problems in a number of simple and important spacetimes and their outcomes have already been published in three papers. Our approach shows that even in Schwarzschild spacetime (as well as in other static spherically symetric ones) one can find a new unexpected geometrical feature: instead of one there are three different infinite sets of conjugate points on each stable circular timelike geodesic curve. Due to problems with solving differential equations we are dealing solely with radial and circular geodesics.

Trapped surfaces and the nature of singularity in Lyraʼs geometry

Motivated by the geometrical interpretation of the Brans–Dicke (BD) scalar field, which may also act as a torsion potential in Lyra geometry, we study the effects of spacetime torsion on the dynamics of a collapsing massive star. Taking the interior spacetime as the FLRW metric and the matter content as spherically symmetric, homogeneous perfect fluid with the equation of state (EoS) , we show that the collapse ends in a spacetime singularity which is of a strong curvature type in the sense of Tipler. Whether the trapped surfaces form during the dynamical evolution of the collapse depends on the torsion parameter, related to the BD coupling parameter, and the EoS subject to the conditions of the physical reasonableness of the collapse configuration. Hence, the space of the torsion and EoS parameters is divided into two portions, one for which the collapse process leads to the formation of the apparent horizon, and the other for which the apparent horizon fails to form in the interior region. The nature of the singularity is examined from the exterior perspective by searching for the existence of radial null geodesics reaching the faraway observers. Moreover, it is found that the effects of a dynamical torsion can be transferred to the outside region of the collapsing star, making the exterior region dynamic.

Geodesic motion in the vacuumCmetric

Geodesic equations of the vacuum C-metric are derived and solved for various cases. The solutions describe the motion of timelike or null particles with conserved energy and angular momentum. Polar, nearly-circular orbits around weakly accelerated black holes may be regarded as a perturbation of circular Schwarzschild geodesics. Results indicate that circular Schwarzschild geodesics of radius $r_0>6m$ are stable under small uniform accelerations along the orbital plane. These stable orbits undergo small oscillations around $r_0$, behaving like a harmonic oscillator driven by a periodic force plus another constant force. Circular orbits with axis parallel to the direction of black hole acceleration are also considered. In this case an algebraic relation expressing the condition of stability is obtained. This refines the stability analysis done in previous literature. We also present an analysis of radial geodesics along the poles. There exist a solution where a particle remains at unstable equilibrium at a fixed distance directly behind the accelerating black hole. Examples of numerical solutions are presented for other more general cases.