An Exact Universal Gravitational Lensing Equation

Details An Exact Universal Gravitational Lensing Equation An Exact Universal Gravitational Lensing Equation

1998-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810017v1

Phys.Rev.D59:124001,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.124001

We first define what we mean by gravitational lensing equations in a general space-time. A set of exact relations are then derived that can be used as the gravitational lens equations in all physical situations. The caveat is that into these equations there must be inserted a function, a two-parameter family of solutions to the eikonal equation, not easily obtained, that codes all the relevant (conformal) space-time information for this lens equation construction. Knowledge of this two-parameter family of solutions replaces knowledge of the solutions to the geodesic equations. The formalism is then applied to the Schwarzschild lensing problem

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