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Calculating divergence and flux of geodesic word lines
Given a family of neighbouring geodesic word lines, is there a way of calculating properties such as their divergence or flux? maybe by converting the tangent vectors of the world lines to a vector ...
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Energy conservation around a black hole
In the Schwarzschild black hole, the Killing vector "time translation" $k^a$, so that the following quantity is conserved along a geodesic:
$$E = -g_{ab}k^au^b = (1 - \frac{2GM}{r})\frac{dt}{d\tau}.$$...
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