Coupling constant metamorphosis, Fermat principle and light propagation in Kerr metric

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Main Authors: Piwnik, Joanna, Gonera, Joanna, Gonera, Cezary, Kosinski, Piotr
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Published: 2024
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author Piwnik, Joanna
Gonera, Joanna
Gonera, Cezary
Kosinski, Piotr
author_facet Piwnik, Joanna
Gonera, Joanna
Gonera, Cezary
Kosinski, Piotr
contents The geodesics of Kerr's metric are described by the four-dimensional Hamiltonian dynamics integrable in the Arnold--Liouville sense. It can be reduced to two-dimensional one by the use of Fermat's principle. The resulting Hamiltonian is, however, rather complicated. We show how one can apply the coupling constant metamorphosis to simplify the Hamiltonian to the one quadratic in momenta and depending on the initial "energy" as parameter. It describes a simple dynamics of two non-linear oscillators and can be integrated directly or evaluated in the framework of perturbation theory by adopting the elegant Lindstedt--Poincaré algorithm. The idea of coupling constant metamorphosis is also applied to the Myers--Perry metric -- a five dimensional generalization of Kerr's metric. The case of single rotation parameter is considered in some detail.
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spellingShingle Coupling constant metamorphosis, Fermat principle and light propagation in Kerr metric
Piwnik, Joanna
Gonera, Joanna
Gonera, Cezary
Kosinski, Piotr
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
The geodesics of Kerr's metric are described by the four-dimensional Hamiltonian dynamics integrable in the Arnold--Liouville sense. It can be reduced to two-dimensional one by the use of Fermat's principle. The resulting Hamiltonian is, however, rather complicated. We show how one can apply the coupling constant metamorphosis to simplify the Hamiltonian to the one quadratic in momenta and depending on the initial "energy" as parameter. It describes a simple dynamics of two non-linear oscillators and can be integrated directly or evaluated in the framework of perturbation theory by adopting the elegant Lindstedt--Poincaré algorithm. The idea of coupling constant metamorphosis is also applied to the Myers--Perry metric -- a five dimensional generalization of Kerr's metric. The case of single rotation parameter is considered in some detail.
title Coupling constant metamorphosis, Fermat principle and light propagation in Kerr metric
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11896