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Autoparallel orbits in Kerr Brans-Dicke spacetimes

H. Cebeci, T. Dereli, R. W. Tucker

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0311080

Abstract

The bounded orbital motion of a massive spinless test particle in the background of a Kerr Brans-Dicke geometry is analysed in terms of worldlines that are auto-parallels of different metric compatible spacetime connections. In one case the connection is that of Levi-Civita with zero-torsion. In the second case the connection has torsion determined by the gradient of the Brans-Dicke background scalar field. The calculations permit in principle to discriminate between these possibilities.

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