The exact solution to null geodesics at the equatorial plane in Kerr spacetime

  • ZHAO Fan1 ,
  • HE Feng2
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  • 1. Orient Science and Technology College,Hunan Agricultural University,Changsha 410128,China 2. College of Physics and Electronic Science,Hunan University of Science and Technology,Xiangtan 411201,China

Online published: 2018-07-20

Abstract

The two first integrals of geodesics given by the Euler - Lagrange equations are found at the equatorial plane in Kerr spacetime. Combining the constraint for null geodesics,the orbit differential equation is obtained.The roots of a quartic in integrand are found and reordered. The solution of orbit differential equation can be expressed exactly by the elliptic of the first kind and the third kind.

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ZHAO Fan1 , HE Feng2 . The exact solution to null geodesics at the equatorial plane in Kerr spacetime[J]. College Physics, 2018 , 37(7) : 23 -24 . DOI: 10. 16854 /j. cnki. 1000-0712. 170603

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