Exact solutions to the geodesic equations of linear dilaton black holes

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the geodesics of the 4-dimensional ($4D$) linear dilaton black hole (LDBH) spacetime, which is an exact solution to the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) theory. LDBHs have non-asymptotically flat (NAF) geometry, and their Hawking radiation is an isothermal process. The geodesics motions of the test particles are studied via the standard Lagrangian method. After obtaining the Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations, we show that exact analytical solutions to the radial and angular geodesic equations can be obtained. In particular, it is shown that one of the possible solutions for the radial trajectories can be given in terms of the WeierstrassP-function ($\wp$-function), which is an elliptic-type special function.