Motions and world-line deviations in Einstein-Maxwell theory

Details Motions and world-line deviations in Einstein-Maxwell theory Motions and world-line deviations in Einstein-Maxwell theory

2000-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0009016v1

Class.Quant.Grav.17:5009-5024,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

23 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/17/24/306

We examine the motion of charged particles in gravitational and electro-magnetic background fields. We study in particular the deviation of world lines, describing the relative acceleration between particles on different space-time trajectories. Two special cases of background fields are considered in detail: (a) pp-waves, a combination of gravitational and electro-magnetic polarized plane waves travelling in the same direction; (b) the Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m solution. We perform a non-trivial check by computing the precession of the periastron for a charged particle in the Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m geometry both directly by solving the geodesic equation, and using the world-line deviation equation. The results agree to the order of approximation considered.

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