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Particle motion in the spherically symmetric vacuum solution with positive cosmological constant

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The time-like geodesics in the spherically symmetric vacuum solution with positive cosmological constant are investigated. The conditions necessary for the existence of bound orbits are found and the motion of particles is related to their position in the conformal diagram.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, 7700, Rondebosch, South Africa

    M. J. Jaklitsch, Charles Hellaby & D. R. Matravers

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Jaklitsch, M.J., Hellaby, C. & Matravers, D.R. Particle motion in the spherically symmetric vacuum solution with positive cosmological constant. Gen Relat Gravit 21, 941–951 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00769865

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