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Geodesic motion in Euclidean Schwarzschild geometry
Emmanuele Battista1, Giampiero Esposito2,3
1Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
This paper performs a systematic investigation of geodesic motion in Euclidean Schwarzschild geometry, which is studied in the equatorial plane. The explicit form of geodesic motion is obtained in terms of incomplete elliptic integrals of first, second and third kind. No elliptic-like orbits exist in Euclidean Schwarzschild geometry, unlike the corresponding Lorentzian pattern. Among unbounded orbits, only unbounded first-kind orbits are allowed, unlike general relativity where unbounded second-kind orbits are always allowed.
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