Gravitational Lensing in Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
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🌀 gr-qc
astro-ph.CO
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gravitationallensingspacetimessphericallysymmetricanglecovariantdeflection
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We present a framework for studying gravitational lensing in spherically symmetric spacetimes using 1+1+2 covariant methods. A general formula for the deflection angle is derived and we show how this can be used to recover the standard result for the Schwarzschild spacetime.
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