Dynamics of test bodies with spin in de Sitter spacetime

Yuri N. Obukhov and Dirk Puetzfeld
Phys. Rev. D 83, 044024 – Published 10 February 2011

Abstract

We study the motion of spinning test bodies in the de Sitter spacetime of constant positive curvature. With the help of the 10 Killing vectors, we derive the 4-momentum and the tensor of spin explicitly in terms of the spacetime coordinates. However, in order to find the actual trajectories, one needs to impose the so-called supplementary condition. We discuss the dynamics of spinning test bodies for the cases of the Frenkel and Tulczyjew conditions.

  • Received 7 October 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.044024

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yuri N. Obukhov*

  • Department of Mathematics and Institute of Origins, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Dirk Puetzfeld

  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany

  • *obukhov@math.ucl.ac.uk
  • dirk.puetzfeld@aei.mpg.de; URL: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~dpuetz/

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Vol. 83, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2011

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