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arxiv: 1301.3309 · v2 · pith:CK3NARWUnew · submitted 2013-01-15 · 🌀 gr-qc

The separable analogue of Kerr in Newtonian gravity

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keywords kerrnewtoniananalogueequationgravitymetricmotionseparable
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General Relativity's Kerr metric is famous for its many symmetries which are responsible for the separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation governing the geodesic motion and of the Teukolsky equation for wave dynamics. We show that there is a unique stationary and axisymmetric Newtonian gravitational potential that has exactly the same dual property of separable point-particle and wave motion equations. This `Kerr metric analogue' of Newtonian gravity is none other than Euler's 18th century problem of two-fixed gravitating centers.

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